Mehetabel, Mehetabeel
Mehetabel, Mehetabeel
me-heta-bel, me-heta-bel (, mehetabh’el, whom God makes happy):
(1) Daughter of Matred, wife of Hadad or Hadar, the 8th and apparently last of the kings of Edom (Gen 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 (Neh 6:10-13).