Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H4105: מְהֵיטַבְאֵל

Mᵉhêyṭabʼêl · pronounced meh-hay-tab-ale' · “Mehetabel”

Definition

Mehetabel, the name of an Edomitish man and woman

KJV translates it as: Mehetabeel, Mehetabel.

Word origin: from H3190 (יָטַב) (augmented) and H410 (אֵל); bettered of God;

Extended definition

A woman living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.36.39; her mother was Matred (H4308); married to Hadad (H1908H)
§ Mehetabeel or Mehetabel = "favoured of God"
1) the ancestor of Shemaiah, the false prophet who was hired against Nehemiah by Tobiah and Sanballat
2) the daughter of Matred and wife of king Hadad of Edom

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H4105 is translated

  • was mehetabel ×2
  • mehetabel ×1

Bible verses with H4105 (Mᵉhêyṭabʼêl)

Mᵉhêyṭabʼêl appears in 3 verses.

  • Genesis 36:39

    And Baal–hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:50

    And when Baal–hanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

  • Nehemiah 6:10

    Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.