אָבֵלʼÂbêl
אָבֵל: 1.
Pronunciation: aw-bale' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H59
Meanings
meadow (1 Samuel 6:18; 1 Samuel 6:14; 1 Samuel 6:15)
2. wheat-meadow (2 Samuel 20:18; 2 Samuel 20:14; 2 Samuel 20:15)
3. acacia-meadow (Numbers 33:49; Numbers 25:1; Micah 6:5)
4. vineyard-meadow (Judges 11:33)
5. dance-meadow (Judges 7:22; 1 Kings 4:12; 1 Kings 19:16)
6. meadow of Egypt (Genesis 50:11)
מַעֲכָה: 1.
a. son of Nahor by his concubine (Genesis 22:22)
b. father of חָנָן, a hero of David (1 Chronicles 11:43)
c. Simeonite name (1 Chronicles 27:16)
d. father of Achish (1 Kings 2:39)
2.
a. Geshurite princess, wife of David, mother of Absalom (2 Samuel 3:3; 1 Chronicles 3:2)
b. daughter of Absalom, wife of Rehoboam, mother of Abijam (1 Kings 15:2; 2 Chronicles 11:20; 2 Chronicles 11:21)
c. mother of Asa, and called also daughter of Absalom (as b.) (1 Kings 15:10; 1 Kings 15:13; 2 Chronicles 15:16)
d. concubine of Caleb (1 Chronicles 2:48)
e. wife of Machir (1 Chronicles 7:16; 1 Chronicles 7:15)
f. wife of (יעיאל), father of Gibeon (1 Chronicles 8:29; 1 Chronicles 9:35)
3. of a people (2 Samuel 10:6; 2 Samuel 10:8; 1 Chronicles 19:7)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- 1 Samuel 6:18 The five gold rats represented the five Philistine towns and their surrounding villages, which were controlled by the five rulers. The large rock at Beth-shemesh, where they set the Ark of the Lord, still stands in the field of Joshua as a witness to what happened there.
- 2 Samuel 20:18 Then she continued, “There used to be a saying, ‘If you want to settle an argument, ask advice at the town of Abel.’
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).