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# חִיאֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2419

**Hiel** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Hiel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2419/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חִיאֵל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2419/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (prob. (אֲ)חִיאֵל brother of Ēl, 𝔊 Ἀχειηλ; cf. חירם & Ph. חמלך, etc.; v. BaeRel 156) a Bethelite, rebuilder of Jericho 1 K 16:34.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Kings 16:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.16.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.16.34/#tree)

בְּיָמָ֞יו בָּנָ֥ה חִיאֵ֛ל בֵּ֥ית הָאֱלִ֖י בֵּ֥ית הָאֱלִ֖י אֶת־יְרִיחֹ֑ה בַּאֲבִירָ֨ם בְּכֹר֜וֹ יִסְּדָ֗הּ וּבִשְׂג֤וּב צְעִירוֹ֙ הִצִּ֣יב דְּלָתֶ֔יהָ כִּדְבַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר דִּבֶּ֔ר בְּיַ֖ד יְהוֹשֻׁ֥עַ בִּן־נֽוּן׃ס

*Word for word:* in days his he.rebuilt Hiel \[the\] Bethelite (et) Jericho by Abiram firstborn his he founded.it and by Segub his.young \[son\] he.set.up gates its according to.the.word of.Yahweh which he.spoke by the.hand of.Joshua the.son of.Nun

*JPS 1917:* In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho; with Abiram his first-born he laid the foundation thereof, and with his youngest son Segub he set up the gates thereof; according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by the hand of Joshua the son of Nun.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2419.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2419/): 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).