# H22 אֲבִיאֵל

אֲבִיאֵל (ʼĂbîyʼêl), Strong’s H22: Abiel, the name of two Israelites KJV: Abiel.. Occurs 3 times.

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*ʼĂbîyʼêl* — Abiel, the name of two Israelites

KJV: Abiel.

Built from [אָב ʼâb](https://besorah.bible/word/H1) (father) + [אֵל ʼêl](https://besorah.bible/word/H410) (strength) — means “father (i.e. possessor) of God”

Occurs 3 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אֲבִיאֵל n.pr.m. (Ēl is (my) father)
- 1 Saul’s grandfather
- 2 = foregoing

## Where it occurs
- [1 Samuel 9:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/9?v=1) — Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son…
- [1 Samuel 14:51](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/14?v=51) — Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
- [1 Chronicles 11:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/11?v=32) — Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,