to God; to the mighty
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
LAEL.A Gershonite Levite (Num_3:24).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Num_3:24.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
La'el. (of God). The father of Eliasaph. Num_3:24.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
lā?el (לאל, lā'ēl, ?belonging to God?): Father of Eliasaph, the prince of the father's house of the Gershonites (Num_3:24).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Lael
(Heb. Ladl', לָאֵל, fo r or of God, i.e. created by him; otherwise to God, i.e. devoted to him; occurs also in Job_33:6, where the Auth.Vers. has " in God's stead ;" Septuag. Λαήλ), father of Eliasaph, which latter was chief of the family of the Gershonites at the Exode (Num_3:24). B.C. ante 1657.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.