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Meaning and etymology of the name Oholiab
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Oholiab 
Oholiab was teamed up with Bezalel to build the tabernacle (Exodus 31:6).
The name Oholiab is a construct of two elements:
The first part of the name Oholiab comes from the noun
 (ohel), meaning tent, from the identical verb to pitch a tent. The word tabernacle is a Latin word meaning tent; in the Hebrew text the word is used. A peculiar other verb, which is spelled identical to the verb that means to pitch a tent, is (ahal), meaning to be clear, shine as used in Job 25:5, where Bildad says, "If even the moon has no brightness [...] in His sight."
The second part of the name Oholiab is the common noun  (ab), meaning father.
The name Oholiab means both Father's Tent and Father's Shine. This is remarkable because the meaning of the name of Oholiab's colleague Bezalel is In The Shadow Of God.
For a meaning of the name Oholiab, NOBS Study Bible Name List reads Father's Tent. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names, curiously, does not list the name Oholiab.
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