Mehetabel; Mehetabeel

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia · James Orr and contributors

me-het'-a-bel, me-het'-a-bel (mehetah'el, "whom God makes happy"):

(1) Daughter of Matred, wife of Hadad or Hadar, the 8th and apparently last of the kings of Edom (Ge 36:39; 1Ch 1:50).

(2) Grandfather of that Shemaiah who played a treacherous part against Nehemiah at the suggestion of Tobiah and Sanballat, by trying to persuade Nehemiah to commit sacrilege (Ne 6:10-13).

In other dictionaries

Read “Mehetabeel” in the 4 dictionaries

MehetabeelEaston’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
MehetabelEaston’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
MehetabelSmith’s Bible Dictionary

Source of the article

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

Bible Strong digital edition from CrossWire module 2.2; historical scholarship originally published in 1915