Tabeal

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Hebrew. A Syrian-like name. The scheme of Rezin of Syria and Pekah of Israel was to set up Tabeal's son as a vassal king instead of Ahaz, in Judah. A party in Jerusalem ( Isaiah 7:5-6;  Isaiah 8:6;  Isaiah 8:9;  Isaiah 8:12) favored the project.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Tabe'al. (God Is Good). The son of Tabeal was, apparently, an Ephraimite, in the army of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, or a Syrian, in the army of Rezin, when they went up to besiege Jerusalem, in the reign of Ahaz.  Isaiah 7:6. The Aramaic form of the name favors the latter supposition. (B.C. before 738).

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Father of one whom the kings of Syria and Israel proposed to make king of Judah.  Isaiah 7:6 .

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Isaiah 7:6

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

( Isaiah 7:6). (See Tabeil), 1. Tab'eal (Heb. Tabeel', ט בְאֵל [in: pause Tabedl', ט בְאֵל ,  Isaiah 7:6, A. V. "Tabeal'"], God is Good; Sept. Ταβεήλ ), the name of two men. (See Tobiel).

1. The father of the unnamed person on whom Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, king of Israel, proposed to bestow the crown of Judah in case they succeeded in dethroning Ahaz ( Isaiah 7:6). B.C. ante 738. Who "Tabeal's son" was is unknown, but it is conjectured that he was some factious and powerful Ephraimite (perhaps Zichri,  2 Chronicles 28:7), who promoted the war in the hope of this result. — Kitto. The Aramaic form of the name, (See Tabrimmon), however, has been thought to favor the supposition that he was a Syrian in the army of Rezin. The Targum of Jonathan renders the name as an appellative, "and we will make king in the midst of her him who seems good to us" ( יִת מִן דנְכָשִׁר לָנָא ). Rashi by Gematria turns the name into רמלא , Rimla, 1,v which apparently he would understand Remaliah.

2. An officer of the Persian government in Samaria in the reign of Artaxerxes ( Ezra 4:7). B.C. 519. It has been argued that he, too, was an Aramaean, from the fact that the letter which he and his companions wrote to the king was in the Syrian or Aramaean language. Gesenius, however (Jesa, 1, 280), thinks that he may have been a Samaritan.

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Ta´beal (God is good), father of the unnamed person on whom Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, king of Israel, proposed to bestow the crown of; Judah in case they succeeded in dethroning Ahaz . Who 'Tabeal's son' was is unknown, but it is conjectured that he was some factious and powerful Ephraimite (perhaps Zichri, ), who promoted the war in the hope of this result.