Zabdiel

Easton's Bible Dictionary

An overseer of the priests after the Captivity ( Nehemiah 11:14 ).

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 'Zabdiel'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/z/zabdiel.html. 1897.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Zabdiel (‘my gift is El’). 1 . Father of one of David’s officers (  1 Chronicles 27:2 ). 2 . A prominent official in Nehemiah’s time (  Nehemiah 11:14 ). 3 . An Arabian who put Alexander Balas to death and sent his head to Ptolemy ( 1Ma 11:17 ).

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Zab'di-el. (Gift Of God).

1. Father of Jashobeam, a chief of David's guard.  1 Chronicles 27:2. (B.C. before 1046).

2. A priest, son of the great men or, as the margin gives it, "Haggedolim."  Nehemiah 11:14. (B.C. 459).

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("gift of God".)

1. Father of Jashobeam. (See Jashobeam .) ( 1 Chronicles 27:2).

2. A priest, "son of (one of) the great men," overseer of 128 brethren ( Nehemiah 11:14).

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. Father of Jashobeam, one of David's captains.  1 Chronicles 27:2 .

2. 'Son of one of the great men,' and overseer of the priests in Jerusalem.   Nehemiah 11:14 .

Holman Bible Dictionary

 1 Chronicles 27:2 2 Nehemiah 11:14

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Zabdiel', זִבְדַּיאֵל , Gift Of God ) , the name of three Jews mentioned in the Old Test and Apocrypha.

1. (Sept. Ζαβδιήλ . ) The father of Jashobeam, the chief of David's warriors ( 1 Chronicles 27:2). B.C. ante 1046.

2. (Sept. Ζοχριήλ v.r. Βαδιήλ ) Son of Haggedolim ("one of the great men") and overseer of 128 of the captives returned from Babylon ( Nehemiah 11:14). B.C. 459.

3. (Sept. Ζαβδιήλ ; Josephus, Ζάβηλος ; Vulg. Zabdiel. ) An: Arabian chieftain who put Alexander Balas to death ( 1 Maccabees 11:17; Josephus, Ant. 13:4, 8). According to Diodorus, Balas was murdered by two of the officers who accompanied him (M Ü ller, Fragm. Hist. 2, 16).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

zab´di - el ( זבדּיאל , zabhdı̄'ēl , "my gift is El (God)"; Ζαβδιήλ , Zabdiḗl ):

(1) Father of Jashobeam ( 1 Chronicles 27:2 ), or rather Ishbaal (Curtis, Chronicles , 290 f).

(2) An overseer of the priests ( Nehemiah 11:14 ).

(3) An Arabian who beheaded Alexander Balas and sent his head to Ptolemy ( 1 Maccabees 11:17 ).