vapor, or cloud of God
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
ADBEEL.The third son of Ishmael (Gen_25:13, 1Ch_1:29), eponym of the N. Arab. [Note: Arabic.] tribe, which appears in cuneiform inscrip. as Idibail or Idibial, and which had its settlements S.W. of the Dead Sea.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
(Arabic "miracle of God".) One of Ishmael's 12 sons, and founder of an Arab tribe (Gen_25:13; 1Ch_1:29).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ad'be-el. (offspring of God). A son of Ishmael, Gen_25:13; 1Ch_1:29, and probably the progenitor of an Arab tribe. (B.C. about 1850).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ad?bē̇-el (אדבּאל, 'adhbe'ēl, ?God's discipline,? possibly): The third of the twelve sons of Ishmael (Gen_25:13; 1Ch_1:29). The name appears in the Assyrian records as that of a north Arabian tribe residing somewhere Southwest of the Dead Sea.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Adb?eel, one of the twelve sons of Ishmael, and founder of an Arabian tribe (Gen_25:13; Gen_25:16).
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Adbeel
(Heb. Adbeel', אִדְבְּאֵל, prob. miracle of God, the first member being by Syriasm for אֶצְבִּע, finger; or progeny of God, the first member being Arab. adb, offspring; Sept. Ναβδεήλ [Josephus Α᾿βδέηλος, Ant. 1, 12, 4], Vulg. Adbeel), the third named of the twelve sons of Ishmael, and head of an unknown Arabian tribe (Gen_25:13; 1Ch_1:29). B.C. post 2061. See ARABIA.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.