Bible Names

Joel: meaning of the name

Joel means “he that wills or commands.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Joel in Hebrew and Greek

יוֹאֵל H3100

Yôwʼêl (yo-ale') — Joel, the name of twelve Israelites

from H3068 (יְהֹוָה) and H410 (אֵל); Jehovah (is his) God;

Ἰωήλ G2493

Iōḗl — Joel, an Israelite

of Hebrew origin (H03100);

People named Joel in the Bible

Joel in Scripture

“Joel” appears in 20 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Samuel 8:2

    Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer–sheba.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:35

    And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,

  • 1 Chronicles 5:4

    The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,

  • 1 Chronicles 5:8

    And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal–meon:

  • 1 Chronicles 5:12

    Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:33

    And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,

  • 1 Chronicles 6:36

    The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,

  • 1 Chronicles 7:3

    And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.