Hebrew word · H7055

קְמוּאֵל

kemu'el

Kemuel

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

What it means

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, only mentioned at Gen.22.21;

son of: Nahor (H5152H) and Milcah (H4435);

brother of: Uz (H5780H), Buz (H0938), Chesed (H3777), Hazo (H2375), Pildash (H6394), Jidlaph (H3044) and Bethuel (H1328A);

half-brother of: Tebah (H2875), Gaham (H1514), Tahash (H8477) and Maacah (H4601);

father of: Aram (H0758H)

§ Kemuel = "raised of God"

1) son of Nahor by Milcah and father of Aram

2) son of Shiphtan, prince of the tribe of Ephraim, and one of the 12 men selected to apportion the promised land between the tribes

3) Levite, father of Hashabiah, prince of the tribe in the time of David

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 · 1

  1. Genesis 22:21 קְמוּאֵ֖ל Kemuel

    Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),

    Here: The third son. The name ends in 'El' (God). It may mean something like 'God has raised up' or 'God's helper/assembly', but no meaning is certain. Two other men in the Bible share the name (Numbers 34:24; 1 Chronicles 27:17).

Numbers · 1

  1. Numbers 34:24 קְמוּאֵ֖ל Kemuel

    Kemuel son of Shiphtan, a leader from the tribe of Ephraim;

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 27:17 קְמוּאֵ֖ל Kemuel

    over Levi was Hashabiah son of Kemuel; over Aaron was Zadok;

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.