H5655 H5655
Avdeel (personal name: 'servant of El')
A personal name meaning 'servant of El (God),' borne by a member of the Judahite nobility during Jeremiah's time. Avdeel's son Shelemiah was among the officials King Jehoiakim dispatched to arrest Jeremiah and Baruch after the reading of the prophetic scroll. Theophoric names of this type, combining 'servant' with a divine element, were common across Semitic cultures.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Avdeel the father of Shelemiah, mentioned in Jeremiah 36:26 when King Jehoiakim commanded his son and two others to seize Jeremiah and his scribe. The name, meaning 'servant of El,' belongs to the pattern of Phoenician, Nabataean, and Sabean theophoric names that invoke deity as master or lord. Despite his son's role in persecuting Jeremiah, the Lord 'hid them.' 1×
AR["عَبْدَئِيلَ"]·ben["আবদেলের"]·DE["[עבדאל]"]·EN["Avdeel"]·FR["[עבדאל]"]·heb["עבדאל"]·HI["अब्देल"]·ID["Abdeel"]·IT["[עבדאל]"]·jav["Abdéèl"]·KO["압드엘의"]·PT["Avdeel"]·RU["Авдеила"]·ES["Avdeel"]·SW["Abdeeli"]·TR["Avde'el'in"]·urd["عبدایل"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† עַבְדְּאֵל n.pr.m. (servant of Ēl, cf. עַבְדִּיאֵל) name in Judah Je 36:26; 𝔊 Εσ(δ)ριηλ.