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The origin of the name Abiel is Hebrew

 

This is how Abiel is written in Hebrew

 

אֲבִיאֵל = Abiy’el

 

The meaning of the name Abiel is: God is my father

 

Abiel was the grandfather of king Saul

 

The name Abiel appears in the bible in the following verses:

 

1 Samuel 9:1 KJV
Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of אֲבִיאֵל (Abiel), the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.

1 Samuel 14:51 KJV
And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of אֲבִיאֵל (Abiel), .

1 Chronicles 11:32 KJV
Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, אֲבִיאֵל (Abiel), the Arbathite,