ZABDIEL (my gift is El).1. Father of one of Davids officers (1Ch_27:2). 2. A prominent official in Nehemiahs time (Neh_11:14). 3. An Arabian who put Alexander Balas to death and sent his head to Ptolemy (1Ma_11:17).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
("gift of God".)
1. Father of Jashobeam. (See JASHOBEAM.) (1Ch_27:2).
2. A priest, "son of (one of) the great men," overseer of 128 brethren (Neh_11:14).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Zab'di-el. (gift of God).
1. Father of Jashobeam, a chief of David's guard. 1Ch_27:2. (B.C. before 1046).
2. A priest, son of the great men or, as the margin gives it, "Haggedolim." Neh_11:14. (B.C. 459).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
zab?di-el (זבדּיאל, zabhdı̄'ēl, ?my gift is El (God)?; Ζαβδιήλ, Zabdiḗl):
(1) Father of Jashobeam (1Ch_27:2), or rather Ishbaal (Curtis, Chronicles, 290 f).
(2) An overseer of the priests (Neh_11:14).
(3) An Arabian who beheaded Alexander Balas and sent his head to Ptolemy (1 Macc 11:17).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Heb. Zabdiel', זִבְדַּיאֵל, gift of God), the name of three Jews mentioned in the Old Test and Apocrypha.
1. (Sept. Ζαβδιήλ.) The father of Jashobeam, the chief of David's warriors (1Ch_27:2). B.C. ante 1046.
2. (Sept. Ζοχριήλ v.r. Βαδιήλ) Son of Haggedolim (one of the great men) and overseer of 128 of the captives returned from Babylon (Neh_11:14). B.C. 459.
3. (Sept. Ζαβδιήλ; Josephus, Ζάβηλος; Vulg. Zabdiel.) An: Arabian chieftain who put Alexander Balas to death (1Ma_11:17; Josephus, Ant. 13:4, 8). According to Diodorus, Balas was murdered by two of the officers who accompanied him (Müller, Fragm. Hist. 2, 16).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.