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# יְחִיאֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3171

**Jehiel** — used 14 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

Jehiel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3171/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְחִיאֵל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3171/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (may Ēl live; Ph. יחואלן, יחומלך v. Eut ZMG 1876, 136)—𝔊 usually Ιειηλ, Ιαιηλ;— one of David’s chief musicians 1 Ch 15:18 (𝔊 Ιειηλ, 𝔊L Ιαιηλ), v 20 (𝔊 Ειθηλ, 𝔊L Ιειηλ), 16:5 (𝔊 Ειειηλ, 𝔊L Ιαιηλ). one of David’s chiefs of the Levites 1 Ch 23:8 (𝔊 Ι(ει)ηλ), 29:8 (𝔊 Βεσιηλ, A 𝔊L Ιειηλ). tutor of David’s sons 1 Ch 27:32 (𝔊 Ιε(ρι)ηλ, 𝔊L Ιωηλ). son of Jehoshaphat 2 Ch 21:2. יְחִו֯אֵל Hemanite of Hezekiah’s reign 2 Ch 29:14. overseer in Hezekiah’s reign 2 Ch 31:13. ruler of the temple in Josiah’s reign 2 Ch 35:8. contemporaries of Ezra, Ezr 8:9 (𝔊 Ιεμα, A Ιεειηλ, 𝔊L Ιειηλ), 10:2, 21, 6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 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: Jehiel (11); of Jehiel (3).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 23:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.8/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י לַעְדָּ֗ן הָרֹ֧אשׁ יְחִיאֵ֛ל וְזֵתָ֥ם וְיוֹאֵ֖ל שְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Ladan \[were\].the chief Jehiel and Zetham and Joel three

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.

[Ezra 10:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.21/#tree)

וּמִבְּנֵ֖י חָרִ֑ם מַעֲשֵׂיָ֤ה וְאֵֽלִיָּה֙ וּֽשְׁמַֽעְיָ֔ה וִיחִיאֵ֖ל וְעֻזִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and of the.sons of.Harim Maaseiah and Elijah and Shemaiah and Jehiel and Uzziah

*JPS 1917:* And of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3171/): 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).