Abimael
Abimael
(Heb. Abimael’, , father of Mael; Sept. , , Josephus ), one of the sons of Joktan in Arabia (Gen 10:28; 1Ch 1:22). B.C. post 2414. SEE ARABIA. He was probably the father or founder of an Arabian tribe called Maal (, of unknown origin), a trace of which Bochart (Phaleg, 2:24) discovers in Theophrastus (Hist. Plant. 9:4), where the name Mali () occurs as that of a spice-bearing region. Perhaps the same is indicated in Eratosthenes (ap. Strabo, 16:1112) and Eustathius (ad Dionys. Periegetes, p. 288, ed. Bernhardy) by the Mincei (oi). So Diodorus Siculus (3, 42); but Ptolemy (6:7) distinguishes the Manitae () from these, and at the same time refers to a village called Manialia ( ) on the shore of the Red Sea. Hence Schneider proposes to read Mamali () in the above passage of Theophrastus; perhaps we should rather read Mani (), a natural interchange of liquids; and then we may compare a place mentioned by Abulfeda (Arabia, ed. Gaguier, p. 3, 42), called Mlinay, 3 miles from Mecca (Michaelis, Spicileg. 2:179 sq.).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Abimael
father of Mael, one of the sons or descendants of Joktan, in Northern Arabia (Gen. 10:28; 1 Chr. 1:22).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Abimael
Descendant of Joktan (Gen 10:28; 1Ch 1:22). The name is preserved in Mali in Arabia Aromatifera (Theophrastus).
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Abimael
ABIMAEL (perhaps = father is God).One of the Joktanids or S. Arabians (see art. Joktan), Gen 10:28 (J [Note: Jahwist.] ), 1Ch 1:22.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Abimael
a-bima-el, ab-i-mael (, ‘abhma’el, my father is God, or God is father): The ninth of the thirteen sons of Joktan, who was descendant of Shem, and son of Eber, and brother of Peleg in whose days the earth was divided (Gen 10:25-29; 1Ch 1:19-23). Like some of the other names in this list, the name is linguistically south Arabian, and the tribes indicated are south Arabians. On the Arabic elements in Hebrew proper names see Halvy, Mlanges d’pigraphie et d’archologie smitiques; ZDMG, especially early in 1883; D. H. Mller, Epigraphie Denkmaler aus Arabien; Glaser, Skizze der Gesch. und Geog. Arabiens; and by index Hommel, Ancient Hebrew Tradition; and Gray, Hebrew Proper Names; and F. Giesebrecht, Die alttestamentliche Schatzung des Gottesnamens.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Abimael
[Abim’ael]
Descendant of Joktan. Gen 10:28; 1Ch 1:22.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Abimael
H39
Son of Joktan.
Gen 10:28; 1Ch 1:22
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Abimael
Abim’a-el. (father of Mael). A descendant of Joktan, Gen 10:28; 1Ch 1:22, and probably the progenitor of an Arab tribe (Mali).