Ithiel

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Ithiel 1. A Benjamite (  Nehemiah 11:7 ). 2. One of two persons to whom Agur addressed his oracular sayings, the other being Ucal (  Proverbs 30:1 ). Neither LXX [Note: Septuagint.] nor Vulg. [Note: Vulgate.] recognizes proper names here, and most modern commentators point differently and tr. [Note: translate or translation.] ‘I have wearied myself, O God, I have wearied myself, O God, and am consumed.’ So RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ith'i-el. (God Is With Me).

1. A Benjamite, son of Jesaiah.  Nehemiah 11:7.

2. One of two persons - Ithiel and Ucal - to whom Agur ben-Jakeh delivered his discourse.  Proverbs 30:1. (B.C. about 900).

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1.  Nehemiah 11:7.

2. One of the two to whom (See Agur spoke by inspiration ( Proverbs 30:1), or "God with me"; perhaps a symbolical name (See Ucal .)

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. Son of Jesaiah, a Benjamite.  Nehemiah 11:7 .

2. One to whom Agur addressed his prophecy.  Proverbs 30:1 .

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

The son of Jesaiah. ( Nehemiah 11:7) The name signifies, with God; from Eth, with-and El, God.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Nehemiah 11:7 2 Proverbs 30:1

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. lthiel', אַיתַיאֵל , for אַתַּי אֵל , God With Me, or, according to Furst, the Property Of God; Sept. Αἰθιήλ ,Vurlg. Etheel; but in  Proverbs 31:1, both translate Οἱ Πιστεύοντες Θεῷ , Cum Quo Est Deus and Deo Secum Morante), the name of two men.

1. A person mentioned along with Ucal in  Proverbs 30:1, apparently as one to whom the "words of Agur's prophecy" had been addressed. B.C. perhaps cir. 990. (See Agur). Gesenius (Thesaur. Heb. p. 88) thinks that Ithiel and Ucal were the children or disciples of Agur, to whom he inscribed his aphorisms; others regard both words as appellatives, and render the whole clause as follows: "Thus spake the man: I Have Toiled For God, I have toiled for God, and have ceased" (see Stuart's Comment. ad loc.).

2. The son of Jesaiah and father of Maaseiah, a Benjamite, one of whose posterity returned with a party from Babylon ( Nehemiah 11:7). B.C. long ante 536.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ith´i - el ( איתיאל , 'ı̄thı̄'ēl , "God is"):

(1) A son of Jeshaiah of the tribe of Benjamin, mentioned among the inhabitants of Jerusalem in Nehemiah's day ( Nehemiah 11:7 ).

(2) The name is perhaps also found in the oracle of Agur ( Proverbs 30:1 ). See Ithiel And Ucal .