King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H4232
Transliteration: Mechuyael or Mechiyyayel
Phonetic Spelling: (mekh-oo-yaw-ale')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "smitten of God", great-grandson of Cain
Meaning: Mehujael -- "smitten of God", great-grandson of Cain
Word Summary
Mechuyael or Mechiyyayel: "smitten of God", great-grandson of Cain
Original Word: מְחוּיָאֵלTransliteration: Mechuyael or Mechiyyayel
Phonetic Spelling: (mekh-oo-yaw-ale')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "smitten of God", great-grandson of Cain
Meaning: Mehujael -- "smitten of God", great-grandson of Cain
Strong's Concordance
Mehujael Or Mchiyyauel {mekh-ee-yaw-ale'}; from machah and 'el; smitten of God; Mechujael or Mechijael, an anxediluvian patriarch -- Mehujael.
see HEBREW machah
see HEBREW 'el
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4232. Mechuyael
or Mechiyyayel מְחוּיָאֵל proper name, masculine great-grandson of Cain Genesis 4:18a = מְחִיָּיאֵ֯ל 4:18b (J; A ᵐ5L in both Μαιηλ, E Μαουιηλ; compare further LagOr. ii, 35 BN 96 (Μαιουιαηλ) BuUrgesch.125). — (etymology dubious; ThesAdd. 97 perhaps smitten of El √ מחה; BuUrgesch. 128 KerberEigennam, d. AT. 91 מְחַיִּיאֵל, or מַחְיִיאֵל El maketh alive; DHMMV 10 thinks of proper name, of divinity יאל, — compare Phoenician proper name יאלפעל, and CISi. 132, 4; especially p. 163 b, = god יאל giveth life (against this GrayProp. N. 164)).
מַחֲוִים see below II. חוה. I. מָחוֺל see חול.