אֲבִיאֵל proper name, masculine (El is (my) father, compare אביהו & Phoenician אבבעל (feminine), also אביבעל; & אבנבעל our father etc.; Abi-ba'al KAT2 355; see RSSem 45. NöZMG 1888, 480 makes אבי here, & in אביהו etc., construct but this seems unlikely; compare also אליאב etc.; views differ much as to these proper names and uniform interpretation is impossible. Compare in general Ol§ 277 f).
1. Saul's grandfather [1Sam 9:1]; [1Sam 14:51].
2. = foregoing, [1Chr 11:32].
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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