Lexical Definition

‎טָבְאֵל‎ ṭâbᵉʼêl (taw-beh-ale') Tabeel ^N:N-M-P
from ‎טוֹב‎ and ‎אֵל‎; pleasing (to) God

Tabeal, Tabeel.

• § Tabeel = "God is good"
• Tabeel, the name of a Syrian and of a Persian

1) a man whose son was either in the army of Pekah or the army of Rezin and whom Pekah and Rezin proposed to make king of Israel
2) an officer of the Persian government in Samaria in the reign of Artaxerxes

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎טָֽבְאֵל‎ proper name, masculine (Aramaic; = God is good, see ‎טוֺב‎; according to Wkl (see below) God is wise, compare Aramaic , Ethiopic be wise; Arabic act as physician, expert) — Persian officer in Samaria Ezra 4:7, ᵐ5 Ταβεηλ.

‎טָֽבְאַ֑ל‎ proper name, masculine (apparently pointed to mean good-for-nothing (‎אַל‎ as negative) see De Di Du Sta^{Gesch i. 590}, originally ‎טָֽבְאֵל‎; Ol^{§ 91 d} Kö^{ii, 537} and others think ‎אַ֑ל‎- simply pausal form) — Aramean, whose son Pekah and Resin proposed to make king of Jerusalem in place of Ahaz; only ‎בֶּןטָֽֿבְאַ֑ל‎ Isa 7:6 (Wkl^{Alttest. Untersuch. 1892. 74 identification} with Resin, comparing ‎טַבְרִמֹּן‎ father of Benhadad).

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