that weeps; who deserves to be bewailed
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
OBIL.The overseer of Davids camels (1Ch_27:30).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
An Ishmaelite, appropriately herd of David's camels (1Ch_27:30). Abal is Arabic for "camel keeper".
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
O'bil. (chief of the camels). A keeper of the herds of camels, in the reign of David. 1Ch_27:30. (B.C. 1050).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ō?bil (אוביל, 'ōbhı̄l, ?camel driver?): An Ishmaelite who was ?over the camels? in David's palace (1Ch_27:30).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
O?bil (chief of the camels), an Ishmaelite, or Arab, doubtless of the nomad tribes, who had charge of the royal camels in the time of David?an exceedingly fit employment for an Arab (1Ch_27:30). As Obil means in Arabic 'a keeper of camels,' Jerome reasonably infers that the person had his name from his office, which has always been a very common circumstance in the East.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Obil
(Heb. Obil', אוֹבַיל, from the Arabic abal, an overseer of camels; Sept. Οὐβϊvας v. r. Α᾿βίας and ᾿Ωβίλ , Vulg. Ubil), an Ishriaelite, or Arab, doubtless of the nomade tribes, who had charge of the royal camels in the time of David an exceedingly fit employment for an Arab (1Ch_27:30). As the name means in Arabic a keeper of camels, Jerome (2:2) infers that the person had his name from his office, which has always been a very common circumstance in the East (see Bochart, Hieroz. I, 2:2).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.