Bible Names

Jabneel: meaning of the name

Jabneel means “building of God.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Jabneel in Hebrew and Greek

יַבְנְאֵל H2995

Yabnᵉʼêl (yab-neh-ale') — Jabneel, the name of two places in Palestine

from H1129 (בָּנָה) and H410 (אֵל); built of God;

Places named Jabneel

Jabneel in Scripture

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

  • Joshua 15:11

    And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.

  • Joshua 19:33

    And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan: