יוֹאֵל
Joel
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H3100 appears — 19 distinct verses across 6 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Samuel 1 verse
1 Chronicles 14 verses
- 1 Chronicles 4:35 וְ/יוֹאֵ֑ל conj + n Proper and Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
- 1 Chronicles 5:4 יוֹאֵ֑ל n Proper The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,
- 1 Chronicles 5:8 יוֹאֵ֑ל n Proper and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon:
- 1 Chronicles 5:12 יוֹאֵ֣ל n Proper Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
- 1 Chronicles 6:33 יוֹאֵ֖ל n Proper These are those who waited, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,
- 1 Chronicles 6:36 יוֹאֵ֔ל n Proper the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
- 1 Chronicles 7:3 וְ/יוֹאֵ֧ל conj + n Proper The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.
- 1 Chronicles 11:38 יוֹאֵל֙ n Proper Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
- 1 Chronicles 15:7 יוֹאֵ֣ל n Proper of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers one hundred thirty;
- 1 Chronicles 15:11 וְ/יוֹאֵ֣ל conj + n Proper David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
- 1 Chronicles 15:17 יוֹאֵ֔ל n Proper So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
- 1 Chronicles 23:8 וְ/יוֹאֵ֖ל conj + n Proper The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
- 1 Chronicles 26:22 וְ/יוֹאֵ֣ל conj + n Proper The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of the house of Yahweh.
- 1 Chronicles 27:20 יוֹאֵ֖ל n Proper of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Ezra 1 verse
Nehemiah 1 verse
Joel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Joel” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name יואל (Yôwʼêl). More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in 1 Chronicles. It appears 19 verses across 6 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Scripture first uses it in 1 Samuel 8:2. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3100 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 →
- 19
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 19 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,563
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,563 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 19 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 14 verses 74%
- 1 Samuel 1 verse 5%
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 5%
By section of the Old Testament
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 19 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 17 verses · 89%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 11%
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: Joel 17×
- American Standard Version: Joel 15×
- Berean Standard Bible: Joel 19×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Joel 19×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3100 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3100 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3100 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3100 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
15 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 15 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. Samuel’s first-born 1 S 8:2, 1 Ch 6:18; ins. also v 13 after 𝔊L Ἰωηλ (cf. Dr 1 S 8:2). e.g. 1 Samuel 8:2
- 2. a Simeonite prince 1 Ch 4:35. e.g. 1 Chronicles 4:35
- 3. a Reubenite 1 Ch 5:4, 8. e.g. 1 Chronicles 5:4
- 4. a Gadite chief 1 Ch 5:12. e.g. 1 Chronicles 5:12
- 5. a chief man of Issachar 1 Ch 7:3. e.g. 1 Chronicles 7:3
- 6. one of David’s heroes 1 Ch 11:38. e.g. 1 Chronicles 11:38
- 7. a chief of Manasseh 1 Ch 27:20. e.g. 1 Chronicles 27:20
- 8. a Jew of Ezra’s time Ezr 10:43. e.g. Ezra 10:43
- 9. a Benjamite Ne 11:9. e.g. Nehemiah 11:9
- 10. the prophet, son of Pethuel Jo 1:1. e.g. Joel 1:1
- 11. Levites
- a. 1 Ch 6:21; e.g. 1 Chronicles 6:21
- b. 2 Ch 29:12; e.g. 2 Chronicles 29:12
- c. 1 Ch 15:7, 11, 17, perhaps = e.g. 1 Chronicles 15:7
- d. 1 Ch 23:8; 26:22. e.g. 1 Chronicles 23:8
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
† יוֹאֵל n.pr.m. 𝔊 Ἰωηλ (usually interpr. as י׳ is God, cf. אֵלִיָּהוּ; but Ph. יאל … CIS i. 132 l. 4 & in יאלפעל (Louvre) appar. n.pr. dei, perhaps = Iolaos, CIS i. p. 163 & reff.; v. also NesEg 86 RSK 301; Nes strong-willed, cf. ויל, ואל Sin. Inscr. وائل, v. ואלו EutSin.Inschr. No. 5 + often, yet cf. DrStud. Bib. i. 5 n.; W in RSl.c. proposes connex. with Arabic Wâil in n.pr. trib. Bakr Wâil (√ وَأَلَ take refuge) cf. RSK 194)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יהוה (Yᵉhôvâh) (H3068) — LORD.
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.
יוֹאֵל
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Joel, the prophet. Taan. 5ᵃ. Succ. 52ᵃ; a. e.
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H3100 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/יוֹאֵ֣ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 15:11 | 3 |
| יוֹאֵ֔ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:36 | 3 |
| יוֹאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:33 | 3 |
| וְ/יוֹאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:43 | 2 |
| יוֹאֵ֑ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 5:4 | 2 |
| יוֹאֵ֣ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 5:12 | 2 |
| וְ/יוֹאֵ֑ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 4:35 | 1 |
| וְ/יוֹאֵ֥ל | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 11:9 | 1 |
| וְ/יוֹאֵ֧ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 7:3 | 1 |
| יוֹאֵל֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 11:38 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3100, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- הושמע Hôwshâmâʻ H1953 Hoshama
- יה Yâhh H3050 Jah
- יהוא Yêhûwʼ H3058 Jehu
- יהואחז Yᵉhôwʼâchâz H3059 Jehoahaz
- יהואש Yᵉhôwʼâsh H3060 Jehoash
- יהוה Yᵉhôvih H3069 LORD
- יהוה יראה Yᵉhôvâh yirʼeh H3070 Jehovah-jireh
- יהוה נסי Yᵉhôvâh niççîy H3071 Jehovah-nissi
- יהוה צדקנו Yᵉhôvâh tsidqênûw H3072 a sacred name symbolically applied to
- יהוה שלום Yᵉhôvâh shâlôwm H3073 Jehovah-shalom
- יהוה שמה Yᵉhôvâh shâmmâh H3074 Jehovahshammah
- יהוזבד Yᵉhôwzâbâd H3075 Jehozabad
- יהוחנן Yᵉhôwchânân H3076 Jehohanan
- יהוידע Yᵉhôwyâdâʻ H3077 Jehoiada
- יהויכין Yᵉhôwyâkîyn H3078 Jehoiachin
- יהויקים Yᵉhôwyâqîym H3079 Jehoiakim
- יהויריב Yᵉhôwyârîyb H3080 Jehoiarib
- יהונדב Yᵉhôwnâdâb H3082 Jehonadab
- יהונתן Yᵉhôwnâthân H3083 Jonathan
- יהועדה Yᵉhôwʻaddâh H3085 Jehoadah
- יהועדין Yᵉhôwʻaddîyn H3086 Jehoaddan
- יהוצדק Yᵉhôwtsâdâq H3087 Jehozadak
- יהורם Yᵉhôwrâm H3088 Jehoram
- יהושבע Yᵉhôwshebaʻ H3089 Jehosheba
- Ιωηλ Iōḗl G2493 Joel
+11 more proper names from this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 38 — not the complete family. 37 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Joel). 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
Jehovah is his God. (1.) The oldest of Samuel's two sons appointed by him as judges in Beersheba (1 Sam. 8:2). (See VASHNI.) (2.) A descendant of Reuben (1 Chr. 5:4, 8). (3.) One of David's famous warriors (1 Chr. 11:38). (4.) A Levite of the family of Gershom (1 Chr. 15:7, 11). (5.) 1 Chr. 7:3. (6.) 1 Chr. 27:20. (7.) The second of the twelve minor prophets. He was the son of Pethuel. His personal history is only known from his book.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(to whom Jehovah is God).
+ Eldest son of Samuel the prophet, (1 Samuel 8:2; 1 Chronicles 6:33; 15:17) and father of Heman the singer. (B.C. 1094.) + In (1 Chronicles 6:36) Authorized Version, Joel seems to be merely a corruption of Shaul in ver. 24. + A Simeonite chief. (1 Chronicles 4:35) + A descendant of Reuben. Junius and Tremellius make him the son of Hanoeh, while others trace his descent through Carmi. (1 Chronicles 5:4) (B.C. before 1092.) + Chief of the Gadites, who dwelt in the land of Bashan. (1 Chronicles 5:12) (B.C. 782.) + The son of Izrahiah, of the tribe of Issachar. (1 Chronicles 7:3) + The brother of Nathan of Zobah, (1 Chronicles 11:38) and one of David's guard. + The chief of the Gershomites in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 15:7,11) + A Gershonite Levite in the reign of David, son of Jehiel, a descendant of Laadan, and probably the same as the preceding. (1 Chronicles 23:8; 26:22) (B.C. 1014.) + The son of Pedaiah, and a chief of the half-tribe of Manasseh west of Jordan, in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 27:20) (B.C. 1014.) + A Kohathite Levite in the reign of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 29:12) (B.C. 726.) + One of the sons of Nebo, who returned with Ezra, and had married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:43) (B.C. 459.) + The son of Zichri, a Benjamite. (Nehemiah 11:9) + The second of the twelve minor prophets, the son of Pethuel, probably prophesied in Judah in the reign of Uzziah, about B.C. 800. The book of Joel contains a grand outline of the whole terrible scene, which was to be depicted more and more in detail by subsequent prophets. The proximate event to which the prophecy related was a public calamity, then impending on Judah, of a two-plague of locusts--and continuing for several years. The prophet exhorts the people to turn to God with penitence, fasting and prayer; and then, he says, the plague shall cease, and the rain descendent in its season, and the land yield her accustomed fruit. Nay, the time will be a most joyful one; for God, by the outpouring of his Spirit, will extend the blessings of true religion to heathen lands. The prophecy is referred to in Acts 2.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
he that wills or commands
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 18 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 19 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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