This name belongs to 11 different people in the Bible:
- Jehiel: Levitical musician during the reign of King David
- Jehiel: King David's uncle and counselor
- Jehiel: Levite leader during the reign of King David
- Jehiel: Son of King Jehoshaphat of Judah
- Jehiel: Levite appointed by King Hezekiah to distribute offerings
- Jehiel: Temple officer during King Josiah's Passover celebration
- Jehiel: A leader who married a foreign wife
- Jehiel: Priest who married a foreign woman during the Exile
- Jehiel: Israelite who married a foreign woman during the Exile
- Jehiel: Leader who returned to Jerusalem with Ezra
- Jehuel: A Levite who helped cleanse the temple under Hezekiah
Definition
or (2 Chronicles 29:14) יְחַוְאֵל; from H2421 and H410; God will live; Jechiel (or Jechavel), the name of eight Israelites
Traditional renderings: Jehiel.
Traditional renderings: Jehiel.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
14 total
- 1 Chronicles 15:18וִיחִיאֵ֣ל׀ · Jehiel…and with them their brothers next in rank: Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel.
- 1 Chronicles 15:20וִֽיחִיאֵל֙ · JehielZechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play the harps according to Alamoth.
- 1 Chronicles 16:5וִֽיחִיאֵ֡ל · JehielAsaph was the chief, Zechariah was second, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel. They were to play the harps and lyres, while Asaph sounded the cymbals
- 1 Chronicles 23:8יְחִיאֵ֛ל · JehielThe sons of Ladan: Jehiel the first, Zetham, and Joel—three in all.
- 1 Chronicles 27:32וִֽיחִיאֵ֥ל · JehielDavid’s uncle Jonathan was a counselor; he was a man of insight and a scribe. Jehiel son of Hachmoni attended to the sons of the king.
- 1 Chronicles 29:8יְחִיאֵ֖ל · of JehielWhoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the LORD, under the care of Jehiel the Gershonite.
- 2 Chronicles 21:2וִֽיחִיאֵל֙ · JehielJehoram’s brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat, were Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; these were all sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 29:14יְחוּאֵל · JehielJehiel and Shimei from the Hemanites; and Shemaiah and Uzziel from the Jeduthunites.
- 2 Chronicles 31:13וִֽיחִיאֵ֡ל · JehielJehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the authority of Conaniah and his brother Shimei, by appointment of King Hezekiah and of Azariah the chief official of the house of God.
- 2 Chronicles 35:8וִֽיחִיאֵ֗ל · and JehielHis officials also contributed willingly to the people and priests and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officials of the house of God, gave the priests 2,600 Passover offerings and 300 bulls.
- Ezra 8:9יְחִיאֵ֑ל · of Jehiel…from the descendants of Joab, Obadiah son of Jehiel, and with him 218 men;
- Ezra 10:2יְחִיאֵ֜ל · of JehielThen Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel.
- Ezra 10:21וִיחִיאֵ֖ל · JehielFrom the descendants of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.
- Ezra 10:26וִיחִיאֵ֣ל · JehielFrom the descendants of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.