Ithiel and Ucal
Ithiel and Ucal
( (, ‘th’el we’ukhal): Names of the two men to whom Agur the son of Jakeh spoke his words (Pro 30:1). The purport of introducing these persons is strange and obscure; the margin proposes therefore, by the use of a different pointing, to read the verse, The man said, I have wearied myself, O God, I have wearied myself, O God, and am consumed, thus doing away with the proper names; a reading which corresponds not inaptly with the tone of the succeeding verses. See AGUR; PROVERBS, BOOK OF, II, 6.