Raguel
RAGUEL
Num 10:29, or REUEL, Exo 2:15,18,21, the Hebrew word being the same in both places. These passages represent him as the father of Hobab and Zipporah, and he is generally supposed to be the same as Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law. Some, however, think he was Jethro’s father, and that he is called the father of the others as being the head of the family. Compare Gen 31:43 2Ki 14:3 16:2.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Raguel
Father-in-law of Moses. When as a youth, Moses’ life was in danger from Pharao, he took flight and went to Madian. He found a home with Raguel the priest, and eventually married Sephora, one of his seven daughters (Exodus 2). There is a tradition that he is buried on the Mount of Beatitudes.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Raguel
(Heb. ; Sept. ), a less correct Anglicism of the name REUEL SEE REUEL (q.v.).
1. A prince-priest of Midian, the father of Zipporah, according to Exodus ii, 21, and of Hobab according to Num 10:29. As the father-in-law of Moses is named Jethro in Exo 3:1, and Hobab in Jdg 4:11, and perhaps in Num 10:29 (though the latter passage admits of another sense), the prima-facie view would be that Raguel, Jethro, and Hobab were different names for the same individual. Such is probably the case with regard to the two first, at all events, if not with the third. SEE HOBAB.
One of the names may represent an official title, but whether Jethro or Raguel is uncertain, both being appropriately significant (Jethro pre-eminent, from , to excel, and Raguel= friend of God, from ). Josephus was in favor of the former (, i.e. , , Ant. ii, 12, 1), and this is not unlikely, as the name Reuel was not an uncommon one. The identity of Jethro and Reuel is supported by the indiscriminate use of the names in the Sept. (Exo 2:16; Exo 2:18); and the application of more than one name to the same individual was a usage familiar to the Hebrews, as instanced in Jacob and Israel, Solomon anti Jedidiah, and other similar cases. Another solution of the difficulty has been sought in the loose use of terms of relationship among the Hebrews; as that chothen () in Exo 3:1; Exo 18:1; Num 10:29, may signify any relation by marriage, and consequently that Jethro and Hobab were brothers-in-law of Moses; or that the terms arb () and bath () in Exo 2:16; Exo 2:21, mean grandfatther and grandtdauughter. Neither of these assumptions is satisfactory, the former in the absence of any corroborative evidence, the latter because the omission of Jethro, the father’s name, in so circumstantial a narrative as in Exodus ii, is inexplicable; nor can we conceive the indiscriminate use of the terms father and grandfather without good cause. Nevertheless, this view has a strong mweight of authority in its favor, being supported by the Targum Jonathan, Aben-Ezra, Michaelis, Winer, and others. SEE JETHRO
2. Another transcription of the name REUEL, occurring in Tobit, where Raguel, a pious Jew of Ecbatane. a city of Media, is father of Sara, the wife of Tobias (Tobias 3:7, 17, etc.). The name was not uncommon. and in the book of Enoch it is applied to one of the great guardian angels of the universe, who was charged with the execution of the divine judgments on the (material) world and the stars (20:4; 23:4, ed. Dillmann).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Raguel
friend of God, (Num. 10:29)=Reuel (q.v.), Ex. 2:18, the father-in-law of Moses, and probably identical with Jethro (q.v.).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Raguel
(“friend of God.”)
1. Prince priest of Midian; father of Zipporah, Moses’ wife, and of Jethro and Hobab. (See JETHRO; HOBAB.) (Exo 2:21; Exo 3:1; Num 10:29). The older tradition, and the insecurity from Egyptian power which Moses would have been exposed to in the W. of the Elanitic gulf, favor the view that Raguel lived on the coast E. of the Elanitic gulf.
2. Gen 36:4.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Raguel
RAGUEL.1. See Reuel, 2. 2. The father of Sarah, the wife of Tobias (Tob 3:7, 17, 18; 14:12).
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Raguel (1)
ra-guel (, Rhagouel): The friend of God, of Ecbatana, the husband of Edna, father of Sarah, and father-in-law of Tobias (Tobit 3:7, 17; 6:10; 7:2 f; 14:12). In Tobit 7:2 he is called cousin of Tobit, and in Tobit 6:10 the King James Version he is erroneously represented as cousin of Tobias = kinsman in the Revised Version (British and American). In Enoch 20:4 Raguel appears as one of the archangels, perhaps by confusion for Raphael (Tobit 3:17). Another form of the name is REUEL (which see).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Raguel (2)
ra-guel, ragu-el (, reu’el; Septuagint: Rhagouel): The Midianite hothen, i.e. either father-in-law or brother-in-law of Moses (Num 10:29 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) Reuel), the father of Hobab, called a Kenite, who is likewise described as a hothen of Moses (Jdg 4:11). See RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILY. Moses’ wife’s father is called reu’el in Exo 2:18 where Lucian reads Iothor and English Versions of the Bible Reuel, which transliteration is adopted in the Revised Version (British and American) in Num 10:29 also. In other passages the hothen of Moses is called Jether or Jethro. Among the harmonizations suggested the following are worthy of consideration: (a) that all are names or perhaps titles of one man (Rashi); (b) that Reuel was the father of Hobab and Jethro, that Jethro was the father-in-law of Moses, and that the word father is used for grandfather in Exo 2:18; (c) that Reuel was the father-in-law and Jethro and Hobab brothers-in-law; (d) that either Reuel or Hobab is to be identified with Jethro. None of these views is free from difficulty, nor is the view of those who would give Jethro as the name in the Elohist (E) and Reuel as that in the Jahwist (Jahwist) and (J-E). See also REUEL.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Raguel
Reuel
Raguel or Reuel (friend of God). 1. A son of Esau (Gen 36:4; Gen 36:10). 2. The father of Jethro (Exo 2:18; Num 10:29). Some confound him with Jethro; but in the text last cited, he is called the father of Hobab, who seems to have been the same as Jethro. In the same passage, indeed, the daughters of the ‘priest of Midian’ relate to ‘Reuel their father’ their adventure with Moses: which might seem to support his identity with Jethro; but it is quite a Scriptural usage to call a grandfather ‘father,’ and a granddaughter, ‘daughter’ [HOBAB]. 3. Another person of this name occurs in 1Ch 9:8.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Raguel
[Ragu’el] See JETHRO.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Raguel
Called also Reuel and Jethro.
Moses’ father-in-law
Num 10:29 Jethro
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Raguel
Ragu’el. (friend of God).
1. Probably the same as Jethro. See Jethro; Hobab. (B.C. 1490).
2. A pious Jew of “Ecbatane, a of Media,” father of Sara, the wife of Tobias. Tob 3:7; Tob 3:17; etc. See Reuel.