Adbeel

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Genesis 25:13 1 Chronicles 1:29

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(Arabic "miracle of God".) One of Ishmael's 12 sons, and founder of an Arab tribe ( Genesis 25:13  ; 1 Chronicles 1:29 ).

Holman Bible Dictionary

Genesis 25:13

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

ADBEEL . The third son of Ishmael ( Genesis 25:13 , 1 Chronicles 1:29 ), eponym of the N. Arab. [Note: Arabic.] tribe, which appears in cuneiform inscrip. as Idiba’il or Idibi’al , and which had its settlements S.W. of the Dead Sea.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Son of Ishmael and one of the "twelve princes according to their generations." Genesis 25:13  ; 1 Chronicles 1:29 . There is no trace of a nation bearing this name, nor of any place named after him.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ad'be-el. (offspring of God). A son of Ishmael, Genesis 25:13  ; 1 Chronicles 1:29 , and probably the progenitor of an Arab tribe. (B.C. about 1850).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ad´bē̇ -el ( אדבּאל , 'adhbe'ēl , "God's discipline," possibly): The third of the twelve sons of Ishmael ( Genesis 25:13  ; 1 Chronicles 1:29 ). The name appears in the Assyrian records as that of a north Arabian tribe residing somewhere Southwest of the Dead Sea.

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Adb´eel, one of the twelve sons of Ishmael, and founder of an Arabian tribe ( Genesis 25:13  ; Genesis 25:16 ).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Adbeel', אִדְבְּאֵל , prob. miracle of God, the first member being by Syriasm for אֶצְבִּע , finger; or progeny of God, the first member being Arab. adb, offspring; Sept. Ναβδεήλ [Josephus Ἀβδέηλος , Ant. 1, 12, 4], Vulg. Adbeel), the third named of the twelve sons of Ishmael, and head of an unknown Arabian tribe ( Genesis 25:13  ; 1 Chronicles 1:29 ). B.C. post 2061. See ARABIA.