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# אֲבִיאֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H22

**Abiel** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Abiel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/22/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲבִיאֵל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/22/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Ēl is (my) father, cf. אביהו & Ph. אבבעל (fem.), also אביבעל; & אבנבעל our father etc.; Abi-ba’al KAT2 355; v. RSSem 45. NöZMG 1888, 480 makes אבי here, & in אביהו etc., cstr. but this seems unlikely; cf. also אליאב etc.; views differ much as to these n.pr. and uniform interpr. is impossible. Cf. in gen. Ol§ 277 f). Saul’s grandfather 1 S 9:1; 14:51. = foregoing, 1 Ch 11:32.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Abiel (2); Abiel (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 11:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.32/#tree)

חוּרַי֙ מִנַּ֣חֲלֵי גָ֔עַשׁס אֲבִיאֵ֖ל הָעַרְבָתִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Hurai from the.wadis of.Gaash Abiel the Arbathite

*JPS 1917:* Hurai of Nahale-gaash, Abiel the Arbathite;

[1 Samuel 14:51](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.51/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.51/#tree)

וְקִ֧ישׁ אֲבִֽי־שָׁא֛וּל וְנֵ֥ר אֲבִֽי־אַבְנֵ֖ר בֶּן־אֲבִיאֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* and Kish \[was\].the.father of.Saul and Ner the.father of.Abner \[was\].the.son of.Abiel

*JPS 1917:* And Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/22/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).