הֶ֫בֶל
he.vel
“Abel”
Definition
Hebel, the son of Adam
the same as H1892 (הֶבֶל);
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Grammar & Morphology
Proper Noun (Masculine)
N:N-M-P
Proper Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
הֶ֫בֶל appears 5 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel.Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.
while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock.And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”“I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.