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The origin of the name Kabzeel is Hebrew

This is how Kabzeel is written in Hebrew:

בַּעֲלָהקַבְצְאֵל  = Qabtsĕ’el

The  biblical meaning of the name Kabzeel is: God gathers

Kabzeel was a City of the Tribe of Judah

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

Joshua 15:21 KJV
And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,

2 Samuel 23:20 KJV
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:

1 Chronicles 11:22 KJV
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.