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Meaning and etymology of the name Jehiel
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Jehiel 
The name Jehiel is surprisingly popular in the Bible. Depending on which source we consult, there are between eight and eleven different men named Jehiel:
(1) A Levite from the Merari branch (1 Chronicles 1:15:18), by some (erroneously) considered the same as
(2) A Levite from the Gershon branch (1 Chronicles 23:8);
(3) A son of Hachmoni and tutor of David's sons (1 Chronicles 27:32);
(4) A son of king Jehoshaphat of Israel and brother of king Jehoram (2 Chronicles 21:2);
(5) A Levite and son of Heman, who assisted during the reform of king Hezekiah of Judah (2 Chronicles 31:13) In 29:14 this man is called Jehuel;
(6) A temple official under king Josiah (2 Chronicles 35:8);
(7) A descendant of Joab and father of Obadiah, who was one of the leaders during the return from Babylon (Ezra 8:9), by some considered to be the same as
(8) The son of Elam and the father of Shecaniah, one of the men who married and divorced foreign wives (Ezra 10:2), probably the same as Jehiel son of Elam mentioned in Ezra 10:26), and by some considered to be the same as
(9) The son of Harim, who also divorced his foreign wife (Ezra 10:21).
The name Jehiel consists of two parts:
The letter yod with which the name begins may be seen as an activation of the verb: he lives or will live.
The second part of our name comes from  (El), the common abbreviation of Elohim.
For a meaning of the name Jehiel, NOBS Study Bible Name List reads God Lives. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names renders the slightly more proper He Lives Of God, and BDB Theological Dictionary suggests May El Live. Jones relates the name Jehiel to the name Eve, but here at Abarim Publications we dispute this.
Related names are Hiel and Jehiah.
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