Bible Names

Adriel: meaning of the name

Adriel means “the flock of God.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Adriel in Hebrew and Greek

עַדְרִיאֵל H5741

ʻAdrîyʼêl (ad-ree-ale') — Adriel, an Israelite

from H5739 (עֵדֶר) and H410 (אֵל); flock of God;

Who named Adriel in the Bible

Adriel in Scripture

“Adriel” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Samuel 18:19

    But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul’s daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.

  • 2 Samuel 21:8

    But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite: