good God
(same as Tabeal)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
TABEEL.1. The father of the rival to Ahaz put forward by Rezin (wh. see) and Pekah (Isa_7:6). 2. A Persian official (Ezr_4:7); called in 1Es_2:16 Tabellius.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A Syrian officer under the Persian government, who joined in writing from Samaria against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes or Pseudo Smerdis (Ezr_4:7).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
tā?bḗ-el: A name meaning ?good is God,? borne by two persons in the Old Testament (Isa_7:6, the King James Version, ?Tabeal?).
(1) The father of the man whom the kings of Israel and Damascus planned to place upon the throne of Judah (Isa_7:6). The form of the name טבאל, ṭābhe'ēl, suggests that he was a Syrian; his son evidently was a tool of Rezin, king of Damascus. The name is vocalized so as to read Tebeal (טבאל, ṭābhe'al), which might be translated ?good for nothing,? though some explain it as a pausal form, with the ordinary meaning. The change, probably due to a desire to express contempt, is very slight in Hebrew.
(2) A Persian official in Samaria (טבאל, ṭābhe'ēl) (Ezr_4:7). All that is known of him is that he joined with other officials in sending a letter to Artaxerxes for the purpose of hindering the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.