Mahalaleel

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Nehemiah 11:4 , a descendant of Perez.

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Bibliography Information Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Mahalaleel'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/m/mahalaleel.html. 1897.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Mahal'ale-el. (Praise Of God).

1. The fourth in descent from Adam, according to the Sethite genealogy, and son of Cainan.  Genesis 6:12-13;  Genesis 6:15-17;  1 Chronicles 1:2;  Luke 3:37. Revised Version.

2. A descendant of Perez or Pharez the son of Judah.  Nehemiah 11:4.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. Son of Cainan, the grandson of Seth.  Genesis 5:12-17;  1 Chronicles 1:2 . Called Maleleel in  Luke 3:37 .

2. Ancestor of Athaiah who returned from exile.   Nehemiah 11:4 .

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

Son of Cainan, in the line of Seth, the chosen seed,  Genesis 5:15. The word means, he that praises God. The word is a compound, from Hillel, to praise—and El, God.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Genesis 5:12-17 1 Chronicles 1:2 Luke 3:37 Nehemiah 11:4

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Fourth from Adam in Seth's line, Cainan's son ("the praise of God".)

2.  Nehemiah 11:4.

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

MAHALALEEL. —An ancestor of Jesus,  Luke 3:37.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

MAHALALEEL. See Mahalalel.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Mahalel', מִהֲלִלְאֵל, Praise Of God; Sept. and N.T. Μαλελεήλ ), the name of two men.

1. The son of the antediluvian patriarch Cainan, of the line of Seth, born when his father was seventy years old; he became the father of Jared at sixty-five years of age, and lived to the age of eight hundred and; sixty-five years ( Genesis 5:12-17;  1 Chronicles 1:2;  Luke 3:37 in which last passage the name is Anglicized "Maleleë l"). B.C. 3777-2881. "Ewald recognizes in Mahalaleel the sun-god, or Apollo of the antediluvian mythology, and in his son Jared the god of water, the Indian Varuna (Gesch. 1:357), but, his assertions are perfectly arbitrary."

2. A Judiate of the family of Pharez, father of Shephatiah, and ancestor of one Athaiall, who resided at Jerusalem after the exile ( Nehemiah 11:4). . B.C. much ante 536.