GABAEL.1. A distant ancestor of Tobit (Tob_1:1). 2. A friend and kinsman of Tobit residing at Rages in Media. To him Tobit, when purveyor to the king of Assyria, once entrusted, as a deposit, 10 talents of silver (Tob_1:14). When blindness and poverty came on Tobit in Nineveh, he recollected, after prayer, the long-forgotten treasure (Tob_4:1), and wished his son Tobias to fetch it (Tob_4:21). Tobias found a guide, Raphael in disguise, who said he had lodged with Gabael (Tob_5:6). When Tobias married Sarah in Ecbatana, he sent Raphael for the deposit (Tob_9:2).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
gab?ā̇-el (Γαβαήλ, Gabaḗl; Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 ad) ?Gabelus?):
(1) An ancestor of Tobit (Tobit 1:1).
(2) A poor Jew of Rages, a city of Media, to whom Tobit lent ten talents of silver (1:14). The money was restored to Tobit in the time of his distress through his son Tobias, whom the angel Raphael led to Gabael at Rages (1:14; 4:1, 20; 5:6; 6:9; 10:2).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Gabael
(Γαβαήλ v.r. Γαμαήλ; Vulg. Gabelus), the name of two persons in the Apocrypha.
1. An ancestor of Tobit (Tob_1:1). 2. A poor Jew (Tob_1:17, Vulg.) of "Rages in Media," to whom Tobias lent (Vulg. sub chirographo dedit) ten talents of silver, which Gabael afterwards faithfully restored to Tobias in the time of Tobit's distress (Tob_1:14; Tob_4:1; Tob_4:20; Tob_5:6; Tob_5:9; Tob_10:2). Smith, s.v. SEE GABRIAS.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.