Bible Names

Ashbel: meaning of the name

Ashbel means “an old fire.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Ashbel in Hebrew and Greek

אַשְׁבֵּל H788

ʼAshbêl (ash-bale') — Ashbel, an Israelite

probably from the same as H7640 (שֹׁבֶל); flowing;

Who named Ashbel in the Bible

Ashbel in Scripture

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

  • Genesis 46:21

    And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

  • Numbers 26:38

    The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:

  • 1 Chronicles 8:1

    Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,