Abel: meaning of the name

Abel in Hebrew and Greek

Who named Abel in the Bible

• Abel, son of Adam

  9 verses · first mentioned in Genesis 4:2

Abel in Scripture

“Abel” appears in 21 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 4:2

  And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

• Genesis 4:4

  And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

• Genesis 4:8

  And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

• Genesis 4:9

  And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?

• Genesis 4:25

  And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

• Genesis 50:11

  And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel–mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

• Numbers 33:49

  And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth–jesimoth even unto Abel–shittim in the plains of Moab.

• Judges 7:22

  And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the Lord set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth–shittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abel–meholah, unto Tabbath.