Jeiel

Holman Bible Dictionary

 1 Chronicles 9:35 1 Chronicles 11:44 2 Chronicles 26:11 2 Chronicles 29:13 1 Chronicles 9:5 1 Chronicles 5:7 2 1 Chronicles 9:6 3 1 Chronicles 9:35 1 Chronicles 8:29 1 Chronicles 11:44 5 1 Chronicles 15:18 6 1 Chronicles 15:21 7 1 Chronicles 16:5 2 Chronicles 20:14 9 2 Chronicles 26:11 10 2 Chronicles 29:13 11 2 Chronicles 35:9 12 Ezra 8:13 13 Ezra 10:43

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Je-i'el. (Treasured Of God).

1. A Reubenite, of the house of Joel.  1 Chronicles 5:7.

2. A Merarite Levite, one of the gate-keepers to the sacred tent.  1 Chronicles 15:18. His duty was also to play the harp,  1 Chronicles 15:21, or the psaltery and harp,  1 Chronicles 16:5, in the service before the ark. (B.C. 1043).

2. A Gershonite Levite, one of the Bene-Asaph, (that is, sons of Asaph), forefather of Jahaziel, in the time of King Jehoshaphat.  2 Chronicles 20:14. (B.C. 910).

4. The scribe, who kept the account of the numbers, of King Uzziah's irregular predatory warriors.  2 Chronicles 26:11. (B.C. 803).

5. A Gershonite Levite, one of the Bene-Elizaphan, (that is, sons of Elizaphan).  2 Chronicles 29:13.

6. One of the chiefs of the Levites, in the time of Josiah.  2 Chronicles 35:9. (B.C. 623).

7. One of the Bene-Adonikam, (that is, sons of Adonikam), who formed part of the caravan of Ezra, from Babylon to Jerusalem.  Ezra 8:13. (B.C. 459).

8. A layman of the Bene-Nebo, (that is, sons of Nebo), who had taken a foreign wife, and had to relinquish her.  Ezra 10:43. (B.C. 459).

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Jeiel 1. A Reubenite (  1 Chronicles 5:7 ). 2. An ancestor of Saul (  1 Chronicles 8:29 , supplied in RV [Note: Revised Version.] from   1 Chronicles 9:35 ). 3. One of David’s heroes (  1 Chronicles 11:44 ). 4. 5. The name of two Levite families: ( a ) 1Ch 15:18;   1 Chronicles 15:21;   1 Chronicles 16:5-6 ,   2 Chronicles 20:14; ( b )   2 Chronicles 35:9 [  Esther 1:9  Esther 1:9 Ochielus ]. 6. A scribe in the reign of Uzziah (  2 Chronicles 26:11 ). 7. One of those who had married foreign wives (  Ezra 10:43 ). In 2. 3. 6. Kethîbh has Jeuel .

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. A chief of the tribe of Reuben.  1 Chronicles 5:7 .

2. Levite, musician and door-keeper in the time of David.  1 Chronicles 15:18,21;  1 Chronicles 16:5 .

3. Son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph.  2 Chronicles 20:14 .

4. Scribe to king Uzziah.  2 Chronicles 26:11 .

5. Son of Elizaphan, a Levite.  2 Chronicles 29:13 .

6. A chief of the Levites in the time of Josiah.  2 Chronicles 35:9 .

7. Son of Adonikam: he returned from exile.  Ezra 8:13 .

8. One who had married a strange wife.  Ezra 10:43 .

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1.  1 Chronicles 5:7.

2.  1 Chronicles 15:18;  1 Chronicles 15:21;  1 Chronicles 16:5.

3.  2 Chronicles 20:14.

4.  2 Chronicles 26:11.

5.  2 Chronicles 29:13.

6.  2 Chronicles 35:9.

7.  Ezra 8:13.

8.  Ezra 10:43.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Ezra 10:43 .

Copyright Statement These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., DD Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.

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

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Jeiel

(Heb. Yeiel ', יְעַיאֵל , Snatched away by God ), the name of several men. (See Jehiel); (See Jeuel).

1. (Text יְעַואֵל [ i.e. Jeuel ], Sept. Ι᾿Ειήλ v.r. Ι᾿Εήλ , Vulg. Jehiel , Auth. Version "Jehiel.") A descendant of Benjamin, apparently named as the founder of and resident at Gibeon, the husband of Maachah, and the father of a large family ( 1 Chronicles 9:35; comp. 8:29). B.C. prob. cir. 1618.

2. (Text יְעַוֹאֵל [i.e. Jeuel ], Sept. Ι᾿Εϊήλ or Ι᾿Ειήλ , Vulg. Jediel , Auth. Vers. "Jehiel.") An Aroerite, son of Hothan, and brother of Shama, one of David's supplementary heroes ( 1 Chronicles 11:44). B.C. 1046.

3. (Sept. Ι᾿Εϊήλ ,Vulg. Jehiel , but Jahiel in the first occurrence in  1 Chronicles 16:5.) One of the Levites appointed by David to celebrate the divine praises before the ark on its removal to Jerusalem ( 1 Chronicles 16:5); apparently the same mentioned again in the latter part of the same verse as a performer on "psalteries and harps;" named elsewhere in like connection with Obededom, either as a gate warden of the Temple ( 1 Chronicles 15:18;  1 Chronicles 15:21), or as one of the sacred musicians "with harps on the Sheminith to excel" ( 1 Chronicles 15:21). B.C. 1043. (See Jehiel), 1.

4. (Sept. Ε᾿Λεήλ v.r. Ε᾿Λεϊήλ , Ε᾿Λειήλ , also Ι᾿Ειήλ , Vulg. Jehiel .) A Levite, son of Mattaniah and father of Benaiah, great grandfather of Jahaziel, who predicted success to Jehoshaphat against the Ammonites and Moabites ( 2 Chronicles 20:14). B.C. considerably ante 890.

5. (Text יְעַואֵל [i.e. Jeuel ], Sept. Ι᾿Εϊήλ , Vulg. Jehiel .) A scribe charged, in connection with others, with keeping the account of Uzziah's troops ( 2 Chronicles 26:11). B.C. 803.

6. (Sept. Ι᾿Ωήλ ,,Vulg. Jehiel .) A chief Reubenite at the time of the taking of some census, apparently on the deportation of the trans-Jordanic tribes by Tilgath-pilneser ( 1 Chronicles 5:7). B.C. 782.

7. (Text יְעַואֵל [i.e. Jeuel ], Sept. Ι᾿Εϊήλ ,Vulg. Jahiel .) A Levite of the "sons" of Elizaphan, one of those who assisted in expurgating the Temple in the reign of Hezekiah ( 2 Chronicles 29:13). B.C. 726.

8. (Sept. Ι᾿Εϊήλ ,Vulg. Jehiel .) One of the chief Levites who made an offering for the restoration of the Passover by Josiah ( 2 Chronicles 35:9). B.C. 623.

9. (Text יְעַואֵל [i.e. Jeuel ], Sept. Ι᾿Εήλ v.r. Ε᾿Ϊήλ , Vulg. Jehiel .) One of the "last sons" of Adonikam, a leading Israelite, who, with seventy males, returned from Babylon with Ezra ( Ezra 8:13). B.C. 459.

10. (Sept. Ι᾿Εεήλ v.r. Ι᾿Αήλ ,Vulg. Jehiel .) An Israelite, one of the "sons" of Nebo, who divorced his Gentile wife after the Exile ( Ezra 10:43). B.C. 459.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

jē̇ - ı̄´el ( יעיאל , ye‛ı̄'ēl , meaning unknown):

(1) A R eubenite ( 1 Chronicles 5:7 ).

(2) In  1 Chronicles 8:29 , added in the Revised Version (British and American) from  1 Chronicles 9:35 , where Kethı̄bh is "Jeuel," an ancestor of King Saul; the King James Version "Jehiel."

(3) One of David's mighty men ( 1 Chronicles 11:44 ). the King James Version is "Jehiel"; Kethı̄bh is "Jeuel."

(4) A L evite, keeper of the ark with Obed-edom ( 1 Chronicles 15:18 ,  1 Chronicles 15:21;  1 Chronicles 16:5;  2 Chronicles 20:14 ), called "Jehiah" in  1 Chronicles 15:24 .

(5) A L evite ( 1 Chronicles 16:5 ) = "Jaaziel" of  1 Chronicles 15:18 (which see).

(6) A scribe under King Uzziah ( 2 Chronicles 26:11 ).

(7) A chief of the Levites, present at King Josiah's great Passover feast ( 2 Chronicles 35:9 ).

(8) One of those who had married foreign wives ( Ezra 10:43 ) = "Juel" in 1 Esdras 9:35.

(9) The King James Version in  2 Chronicles 29:14; see Jehiel , (5).

(10) the King James Version in  Ezra 8:13; see Jeuel , (3).