Abimael

In Bible versions:

Abimael: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

the son of Joktan of Shem

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a father sent from God

Hebrew

Strongs #039: lamyba 'Abiyma'el

Abimael = "my father is El (God)"

1) son of Joktan, descendant of Shem

39 'Abiyma'el ab-ee-maw-ale'

from 1 and an elsewhere unused (probably foreign) word;
father of Mael (apparently some Arab tribe); Abimael, a son of
Joktan:-Abimael.
see HEBREW for 01

Abimael [EBD]

father of Mael, one of the sons or descendants of Joktan, in Northern Arabia (Gen. 10:28; 1 Chr. 1:22).

Abimael [NAVE]

ABIMAEL, son of Joktan, Gen. 10:28; 1 Chr. 1:22.

ABIMAEL [SMITH]

(father of Mael), a descendant of Joktan, (Genesis 10:28; 1 Chronicles 1:22) and probably the progenitor of an Arab tribe (Mali).

ABIMAEL [ISBE]

ABIMAEL - a-bim'-a-el, ab-i-ma'-el ('abhima'el, "my father is God," or "God is father"): The ninth of the thirteen sons of Joktan, who was descendant of Shem, and son of Eber, and brother of Peleg in whose days the earth was divided (Gen 10:25-29; 1 Ch 1:19-23). Like some of the other names in this list, the name is linguistically south Arabian, and the tribes indicated are south Arabians. On the Arabic elements in Hebrew proper names see Halevy, Melanges d'epigraphie et d'archeologie semitiques; ZDMG, especially early in 1883; D. H. Muller, Epigraphie Denkmaler aus Arabien; Glaser, Skizze der Gesch. und Geog. Arabiens; and by index Hommel, Ancient Hebrew Tradition; and Gray, Hebrew Proper Names; and F. Giesebrecht, Die alttestamentliche Schatzung des Gottesnamens.

Willis J. Beecher