Abel
אָבֵלStrong’s H0062avel (a-vel)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avel is the Hebrew word usually translated “maacah”, “beth” and “abel”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.”
Meaning
- A city in northern Israel near Bethmaachah
How it's translated
- maacah 4
- beth 3
- abel 2
- abel towards 1
- and beth 1
- in abel 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 2
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Kings 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 20:15And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
- 1 Kings 15:20So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
- 2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
Hebrew dictionary
אָבֵל avel · Abel
A city in northern Israel near Bethmaachah Another name of a.vel bet-ma.a.khah (אָבֵל בֵּית־מֲעַכָה "Abel-beth-maachah" H0062)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “be” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BE, verb intransitive
substantive, participle present tense being; participle passive been.[The sense is to stand, remain or be fixed; hence to continue. This verb is defective, and its defects are supplied by verbs from other roots, as, is, was, were, which have no radical connection with be The case is the same with the substantive verb in most languages.]
- To be fixed; to exist; to have a real state or existence, for a longer or shorter time.“Let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus” Philippians 2:5
- To be made to be; to become.
- To remain.
- To be present in a place.
All definitions
- To have a particular manner of being or happening; as, how is this affair? how was it? what were the circumstances?
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.