בְּתוּאֵלBᵉthûwʼêl
בְּתוּאֵל: proper name, masculine: son of Nahor, nephew of Abraham (Genesis 22:22; Genesis 22:23; Genesis 24:15; Genesis 24:24; Genesis 24:47)
Pronunciation: beth-oo-ale' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1328
Meanings
בְּתוּאֵל: proper name [of a location]: in Simeon, site unknown (1 Chronicles 4:30; Joshua 19:4; Joshua 15:30; 1 Samuel 30:27)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 10 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 22:22 Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
- Genesis 22:23 (Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) In addition to these eight sons from Milcah,
- Genesis 24:15 Before he had finished praying, he saw a young woman named Rebekah coming out with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, who was the son of Abraham’s brother Nahor and his wife, Milcah.
- Genesis 24:24 “I am the daughter of Bethuel,” she replied. “My grandparents are Nahor and Milcah.
- Genesis 24:47 “Then I asked, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘I am the daughter of Bethuel, and my grandparents are Nahor and Milcah.’ So I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her wrists.
- Genesis 24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “The Lord has obviously brought you here, so there is nothing we can say.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).