MAHALALEEL.See Mahalalel.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1. Fourth from Adam in Seth's line, Cainan's son ("the praise of God".)
2. Neh_11:4.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Mahal'ale-el. (praise of God).
1. The fourth in descent from Adam, according to the Sethite genealogy, and son of Cainan. Gen_6:12-13; Gen_6:15-17; 1Ch_1:2; Luk_3:37. Revised Version.
2. A descendant of Perez or Pharez the son of Judah. Neh_11:4.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
Mahalaleel
(Heb. Mahalel', מִהֲלִלְאֵל, praise of God; Sept. and N.T. Μαλελεήλ), the name of two men.
1. The son of the antediluvian patriarch Cainan, of the line of Seth, born when his father was seventy years old; he became the father of Jared at sixty-five years of age, and lived to the age of eight hundred and; sixty-five years (Gen_5:12-17; 1Ch_1:2; Luk_3:37 in which last passage the name is Anglicized Maleleël). B.C. 3777-2881. Ewald recognizes in Mahalaleel the sun-god, or Apollo of the antediluvian mythology, and in his son Jared the god of water, the Indian Varuna (Gesch. 1:357), but, his assertions are perfectly arbitrary.
2. A Judiate of the family of Pharez, father of Shephatiah, and ancestor of one Athaiall, who resided at Jerusalem after the exile (Neh_11:4). . B.C. much ante 536.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.