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HebrewH4105Proper Noun (Feminine)

מְהֵיטַבְאֵל

me.he.tav.el

3Occurrences
H4105Strong's #
Proper Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Mehetabel, the name of an Edomitish man and woman

from H3190 (יָטַב) (augmented) and H410 (אֵל); bettered of God;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A woman living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at ; her mother was Matred (H4308); married to Hadad (H1908H) § Mehetabeel or Mehetabel = "favoured of God" 1) the ancestor of Shemaiah, the false prophet who was hired against Nehemiah by Tobiah and Sanballat 2) the daughter of Matred and wife of king Hadad of Edom

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

N:N-F-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Feminine

Occurrences

מְהֵיטַבְאֵל appears 3 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Chronicles
1
Genesis
1
Nehemiah
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:50BSB

When Baal-hanan died, Hadad reigned in his place. His city was named Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.

Genesis 36:39BSB

When Baal-hanan son of Achbor died, Hadad reigned in his place. His city was named Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.

Nehemiah 6:10BSB

Later, I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his house. He said:“Let us meet at the house of Godinside the temple.Let us shut the temple doorsbecause they are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you!”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.