Bible Names

Hiel: meaning of the name

Hiel means “God lives; the life of God.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Hiel in Hebrew and Greek

חִיאֵל H2419

Chîyʼêl (khee-ale') — Chiel, an Israelite

from H2416 (חַי) and H410 (אֵל); living of God;

Who named Hiel in the Bible

Hiel in Scripture

“Hiel” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • 1 Kings 16:34

    In his days did Hiel the Beth–elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.