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Genesis 22:23
“And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
בְּתוּאֵלBᵉthûwʼêl · beth-oo-ale'
H1328 · Hebrew
H1328 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Bethuel, the name of a nephew of Abraham, and of a place in Palestine
- Derivation
- apparently from the same as H1326 (בָּתָה) and H410 (אֵל); destroyed of God;
- KJV renderings
- Bethuel. Compare H1329 (בְּתוּל).
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- בְתוּאֵ֖ל — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 10 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 22:22Genesis 24:15Genesis 24:24Genesis 24:47Genesis 24:50
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read בְּתוּאֵל here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.