Hebrew word · H22

אֲבִיאֵל

'avi'el

Abiel

Appears 3 times in 3 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

Abiel = "El (God) is (my) father"

Saul's grandfather, a man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.9.1;

son of: Zeror (H6872C); married to Maacah (H4601N);

father of: Kish (H7027), Ner (H5369), Abdon (H5658J), Zur (H6698I), Baal (H1168B), Nadab (H5070J), Gedor (H1446I), Ahio (H0283I), Zecher (H2144) and Mikloth (H4732); also called Jeiel (Ketiv: Jeuel; KJV: Jehiel) at 1Ch.9.35; Ner at 1Ch.8.33; 9.39;

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

1 Samuel · 2

  1. 1 Samuel 9:1 אֲבִיאֵ֞ל Abiel

    Now there was a Benjamite, a powerful man, whose name was Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin.

  2. 1 Samuel 14:51 אֲבִיאֵֽל׃ ס Abiel

    Saul’s father Kish and Abner’s father Ner were sons of Abiel.

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 11:32 אֲבִיאֵ֖ל Abiel

    Hurai from the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,

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