Bethuel
בְּתוּאֵלStrong’s H1328betuel (be-tu-el)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Betuel is the Hebrew word usually translated “bethuel”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.22.22
- § Bethuel = "God destroys" or "man of God" or "dweller in God"
How it's translated
- bethuel 6
- and bethuel 2
- to bethuel 1
- and in bethuel 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 9
- 1 Chronicles 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 22:23And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
- Genesis 24:15And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
- Genesis 24:24And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
- Genesis 24:47And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
- Genesis 24:50Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
- Genesis 25:20And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
Hebrew dictionary
בְּתוּאֵל betuel · Bethuel
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.22.22; son of: Nahor (H5152H) and Milcah (H4435); brother of: Uz (H5780H), Buz (H0938), Kemuel (H7055), Chesed (H3777), Hazo (H2375), Pildash (H6394), Jidlaph (H3044) and Tebah (H2875); half-brother of: Gaham (H1514), Tahash (H8477) and Maacah (H4601); father of: Rebekah (H7259) and Laban (H3837A) § Bethuel = "God destroys" or "man of God" or "dweller in God" nephew of Abraham, son of Nahor by Milcah, father of Rebekah
בְּתוּאֵל betuel · Bethuel
§ Bethuel = "God destroys" or "man of God" or "dweller in God" a town of Simeon in the south
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.