Bible Names

Gabriel: meaning of the name

Gabriel means “God is my strength.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Gabriel in Hebrew and Greek

Γαβριήλ G1043

Gabriḗl — Gabriel, an archangel

of Hebrew origin (H01403);

Who named Gabriel in the Bible

Gabriel in Scripture

“Gabriel” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • Daniel 8:16

    And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.

  • Daniel 9:21

    Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

  • Luke 1:19

    And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.

  • Luke 1:26

    And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,