Bible Names

Abiel: meaning of the name

Abiel means “God my father.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Abiel in Hebrew and Greek

אֲבִיאֵל H22

ʼĂbîyʼêl (ab-ee-ale') — Abiel, the name of two Israelites

from H1 (אָב) and H410 (אֵל); father (i.e. possessor) of God;

People named Abiel in the Bible

Abiel in Scripture

“Abiel” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Samuel 9:1

    Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.

  • 1 Samuel 14:51

    And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

  • 1 Chronicles 11:32

    Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,