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HebrewH7467Proper Noun (Masculine)

רְעוּאֵל

re.u.el

10Occurrences
H7467Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Reuel, the name of Moses' father-in-law, also of an Edomite and an Israelite

from the same as H7466 (רְעוּ) and H410 (אֵל); friend of God;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man of the Edomites living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at ; son of: Esau (H6215) and Mahalath (H4258); half-brother of: Eliphaz (H0464), Jeush (H3266), Jalam (H3281) and Korah (H7141); father of: Nahath (H5184), Zerah (H2226), Shammah (H8048) and Mizzah (H4199) § Reuel or Raguel = "friend of God" 1) a son of Esau by his wife Bashemath, the sister of Ishmael 2) the father-in-law of a) also 'Jethro' 3) father of Eliasaph, the leader of the tribe of Gad at the time of the census at ) a Benjamite, ancestor of Elah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

רְעוּאֵל appears 10 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
4
1 Chronicles
3
Numbers
2
Exodus
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:35BSB

The sons of Esau:Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

1 Chronicles 9:8BSB

Ibneiah son of Jeroham;Elah son of Uzzi, the son of Michri;Meshullam son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;

Genesis 36:4BSB

And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath gave birth to Reuel,

Genesis 36:13BSB

These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.

Numbers 10:29BSB

Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”

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