Hebrew word · H1328
בְּתוּאֵל
betu'el
Bethuel
Appears 10 times in 10 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.
What it means
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.22.22;
son of: Nahor (H5152H) and Milcah (H4435);
brother of: Uz (H5780H), Buz (H0938), Kemuel (H7055), Chesed (H3777), Hazo (H2375), Pildash (H6394), Jidlaph (H3044) and Tebah (H2875);
half-brother of: Gaham (H1514), Tahash (H8477) and Maacah (H4601);
father of: Rebekah (H7259) and Laban (H3837A)
§ Bethuel = "God destroys" or "man of God" or "dweller in God"
nephew of Abraham, son of Nahor by Milcah, father of Rebekah
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
Where it appears
Genesis · 9
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Genesis 22:22 בְּתוּאֵֽל׃ Bethuel
Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”
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Genesis 22:23 וּבְתוּאֵ֖ל and Bethuel
And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
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Genesis 24:15 לִבְתוּאֵ֣ל to Bethuel
Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.
Here: 'To Bethuel', her father, the son of Abraham's brother Nahor (Gen 22:22–23). That makes him Isaac's first cousin.
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Genesis 24:24 בְּתוּאֵ֖ל Bethuel
She replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”
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Genesis 24:47 בְּתוּאֵל֙ Bethuel
Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
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Genesis 24:50 וּבְתוּאֵל֙ and Bethuel
Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.
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Genesis 25:20 בְּתוּאֵל֙ Bethuel
and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
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Genesis 28:2 בְתוּאֵ֖ל Bethuel
“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
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Genesis 28:5 בְּתוּאֵל֙ Bethuel
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
1 Chronicles · 1
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1 Chronicles 4:30 וּבִבְתוּאֵ֥ל and in Bethuel
Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag,
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