sign, or coming of God
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
ITHIEL.1. A Benjamite (Neh_11:7). 2. One of two persons to whom Agur addressed his oracular sayings, the other being Ucal (Pro_30:1). Neither LXX [Note: Septuagint.] nor Vulg. [Note: Vulgate.] recognizes proper names here, and most modern commentators point differently and tr. [Note: translate or translation.] I have wearied myself, O God, I have wearied myself, O God, and am consumed. So RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] .
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1. Neh_11:7.
2. One of the two to whom (See AGUR spoke by inspiration (Pro_30:1), or "God with me"; perhaps a symbolical name (See UCAL.)
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ith'i-el. (God is with me).
1. A Benjamite, son of Jesaiah. Neh_11:7.
2. One of two persons ? Ithiel and Ucal ? to whom Agur ben-Jakeh delivered his discourse. Pro_30:1. (B.C. about 900).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ith?i-el (איתיאל, 'ı̄thı̄'ēl, ?God is?):
(1) A son of Jeshaiah of the tribe of Benjamin, mentioned among the inhabitants of Jerusalem in Nehemiah's day (Neh_11:7).
(2) The name is perhaps also found in the oracle of Agur (Pro_30:1). See ITHIEL AND UCAL.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Ithiel
(Heb. lthiel', אַיתַיאֵל, for אַתַּי אֵל, God with me, or, according to Furst, the property of God; Sept. Αἰθιήλ,Vurlg. Etheel; but in Pro_31:1, both translate οἱ πιστεύοντες θεῷ, cum quo est Deus and Deo secum morante), the name of two men.
1. A person mentioned along with Ucal in Pro_30:1, apparently as one to whom the words of Agur's prophecy had been addressed. B.C. perhaps cir. 990. SEE AGUR. Gesenius (Thesaur. Heb. p. 88) thinks that Ithiel and Ucal were the children or disciples of Agur, to whom he inscribed his aphorisms; others regard both words as appellatives, and render the whole clause as follows: Thus spake the man: I have toiled for God, I have toiled for God, and have ceased (see Stuart's Comment. ad loc.).
2. The son of Jesaiah and father of Maaseiah, a Benjamite, one of whose posterity returned with a party from Babylon (Neh_11:7). B.C. long ante 536.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.