STRONGS NUMBER H39


Word Summary
Abimael: "a father is El", a son of Joktan, also his desc
Original Word: אֲבִימָאֵל
Transliteration: Abimael
Phonetic Spelling: (ab-ee-maw-ale')
Part of Speech: proper name, masculine
Short Definition: "a father is El", a son of Joktan, also his desc
Meaning: Abimael -- "a father is El", a son of Joktan, also his desc
Strong's Concordance
Abimael

From 'ab and an elsewhere unused (probably foreign) word; father of Mael (apparently some Arab tribe); Abimael, a son of Joktan -- Abimael.

see HEBREW 'ab

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H39. Abimael

אֲבִימָאֵלproper name, masculine (a father is El; South-Arabic name) son of Joktan Genesis 10:28; 1 Chronicles 1:22. compare Sabean אבמעתֿתר‎, Abmi ±A¾tar a father is ±A¾tar ([עשׁתר‎] see עַשְׁתֹּרֶת‎) HalM 86, DHMZMG 1883, 18.