Gamaliel: meaning of the name

Gamaliel in Hebrew and Greek

People named Gamaliel in the Bible

• Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur

  5 verses · first mentioned in Numbers 1:10

• Gamaliel

  2 verses · first mentioned in Acts 5:34

Gamaliel in Scripture

“Gamaliel” appears in 7 verses of the King James Version.

• Numbers 1:10

  Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

• Numbers 2:20

  And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

• Numbers 7:54

  On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:

• Numbers 7:59

  And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

• Numbers 10:23

  And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

• Acts 5:34

  Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;

• Acts 22:3

  I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.