Tabeel

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Tabeel: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

a man who was an opponent to Zerubbabel's rebuilding the temple
an official from Damascus in the time of King Ahaz of Judah

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good God ( --> same as Tabeal)

Hebrew

Strongs #02870: labj tab@'el

Tabeal = "God is good"

1) a man whose son was either in the army of Pekah or the army of
Rezin and whom Pekah and Rezin proposed to make king of Israel

Tabeel = "God is good"

2) an officer of the Persian government in Samaria in the reign of
Artaxerxes

2870 tab'el taw-beh-ale'

from 2895 and 410; pleasing (to) God; Tabeel, the name of a
Syrian and of a Persian:-Tabeal, Tabeel.
see HEBREW for 02895
see HEBREW for 0410

Tabeel [EBD]

a Persian governor of Samaria, who joined others in the attempt to prevent the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Ezra 4:7).

Tabeel [NAVE]

TABEEL
1. A Persian official in Samaria, Ezra 4:7.
2. See: Tabeal.

TABEEL [ISBE]

TABEEL - ta'-be-el: A name meaning "good is God," borne by two persons in the Old Testament (Isa 7:6, the King James Version, "Tabeal").

(1) The father of the man whom the kings of Israel and Damascus planned to place upon the throne of Judah (Isa 7:6). The form of the name Tabhe'el, suggests that he was a Syrian; his son evidently was a tool of Rezin, king of Damascus. The name is vocalized so as to read Tebeal (Tabhe'al), which might be translated "good for nothing," though some explain it as a pausal form, with the ordinary meaning. The change, probably due to a desire to express contempt, is very slight in Hebrew.

(2) A Persian official in Samaria (Tabhe'el) (Ezr 4:7). All that is known of him is that he joined with other officials in sending a letter to Artaxerxes for the purpose of hindering the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem.

F. C. Eiselen