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# אֲבִימָאֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H39

**Abimael** — used 2 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

Abimael [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/39/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲבִימָאֵל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/39/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (a father is Ēl; South-Arabic name) son of Joktan Gn 10:28 1 Ch 1:22. Cf. Sab. אבמעתֿתר, Abmi ʿAṯtar a father is ʿAṯtar (\[עשׁתר\] v. עַשְׁתֹּרֶת) HalM 86, DHMZMG 1883, 18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: Abimael (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.28/#tree)

וְאֶת־עוֹבָ֥ל וְאֶת־אֲבִֽימָאֵ֖ל וְאֶת־שְׁבָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Obal and (et) Abimael and (et) Sheba

*JPS 1917:* and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba;

[1 Chronicles 1:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.22/#tree)

וְאֶת־עֵיבָ֥ל וְאֶת־אֲבִימָאֵ֖ל וְאֶת־שְׁבָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Ebal and (et) Abimael and (et) Sheba

*JPS 1917:* and Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/39.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/39/): 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).