Ashbel

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Ashbel: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV
Ashbelites: NET AVS NRSV NASB TEV
Ashbelite: NIV

son of Benjamin son of Israel
descendants of Ashbel (HBD)

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an old fire

Hebrew

Strongs #0788: lbva 'Ashbel

Ashbel = "a man in God: a man of Baal: fire of Bel: I will make a path"

1) second son of Benjamin

788 'Ashbel ash-bale'

probably from the same as 7640; flowing; Ashbel, an
Israelite:-Ashbel.
see HEBREW for 07640

Strongs #0789: ylbva 'Ashbeliy

Ashbelites = "a man in God: a man of Baal: fire of Bel: I will make a path"

1) descendants of Ashbel

789 'Ashbeliy ash-bay-lee'

patronymic from 788; an Ashbelite (collectively) or
descendant of Ashbel:-Ashbelites.
see HEBREW for 0788

Ashbel [NAVE]

ASHBEL, son of Benjamin, Gen. 46:21; Num. 26:38; 1 Chr. 8:1.

Ashbelites [NAVE]

ASHBELITES
See: Ashbel.

ASHBEL [SMITH]

(reproof of God), second son of Benjamin and ancestor of the Ashbelites. (Genesis 46:21; Numbers 26:38; 1 Chronicles 8:1)

ASHBEL; ASHBELITE [ISBE]

ASHBEL; ASHBELITE - ash'-bel, ash'-bel-it ('ashbel): The gentilic name "Ashbelite" is found in Nu 26:38, second son of Benjamin (Gen 46:21). In 1 Ch 7:6-11 (6) "Jediael" ("known to God") is substituted for the heathen-sounding "Ashbel" ("Ishbaal," "man of Baal"). The chronicler, in this case, conforms literally to the principle laid down in Hos 2:17; the title "Baal" ("lord") was applied in early days (e.g. in the days of Saul) to the national God of Israel, but in later days the prophets objected to it because it was freely applied to heathen gods (compare ISH-BOSHETH). In 1 Ch 8:1 the three names Bela, Ashbel, Aharah (= Ahiram) are taken from Nu 26:38, however, without change.

H. J. Wolf