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אַדְבְּאֵל

Adbeel

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Adbeel’ fuller range ↓

H110 Strong's Hebrew
ʼAdbᵉʼêl Transliteration
/ad-beh-ale'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 2 appearances

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About this entry

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“Adbeel” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name אדבאל (ʼAdbᵉʼêl). It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. More than half of its appearances fall in Genesis. First canonically at Genesis 25:13, it enters the text early. See 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Adbeel
Modern gloss
Adbeel
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H110 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
2 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
Genesis 25:13
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Genesis 25:13.
1 Chronicles 1:29
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 Chronicles 1:29.
#4,807
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 1 · 50%
  • Historical 1 · 50%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.

  • Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 50%
  • Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Adbeel 2×
  • American Standard Version: Adbeel 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Adbeel 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Adbeel 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H110 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Adbeel” 2×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H110 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Adbeel” 2×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H110 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Adbeel” 2×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H110 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Adbeel” 2×

Senses in BDB

The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. Adbeel = "chastened of God"
  2. third son of Ishmael and grandson of Abraham

Word origin

אַדְבְּאֵל n.pr.m. 3rd son of Ishmael

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from אדב (ʼâdab) (H109) — to grieve.

Part of speech: Proper Name Masculine


Jastrow Dictionary

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

אדבאל

  • Y. Maas. Sh. IV, 54ᵈ top, v. אַרְבֵּל I

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.


Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Adbeel). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

Miracle of God, the third of the twelve sons of Ishmael, and head of an Arabian tribe (Gen. 25:13; 1 Chr. 1:29).

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(offspring of God), a son of Ishmael, (Genesis 25:13; 1 Chronicles 1:29) and probably the progenitor of an Arab tribe. (B.C. about 1850.)

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

vapor, or cloud of God

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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