God my father
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
ABIEL.1. Father of Kish and Ner, and grandfather of Saul (1Sa_9:1; 1Sa_14:51). The latter passage should run, Kish, the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner, were sons of Abiel. 2. One of Davids heroes (1Ch_11:32), from Beth-arabah in the wilderness of Judah (Jos_15:6; Jos_15:61; Jos_18:22). Abi-albon (2Sa_23:31) is a transcribers error, the eye having fallen on albon below: some codices of the LXX [Note: Septuagint.] have Abiel: possibly the original was Abibaal.
J. Taylor.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
("father of strength".)
1. Father of Kish and of Ner; grandfather of Saul and of Abner, according to 1Sa_9:1; 1Sa_14:51. But Abiel seems to have had "Ner" as his second name (1Ch_8:33; 1Ch_9:35; 1Ch_9:39, where Abiel is also called Jehiel and Saul is represented as his great grandson). Probably in 1 Samuel a link in the genealogy is omitted, as often elsewhere.
2. 1Ch_11:32; named Abi-Albon (of the same meaning) 2Sa_23:31.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
A'bi-el or Ab'i-el. (father of strength, that is, strong).
1. Father of Kish, and consequently grandfather of Saul, 1Sa_9:1, as well as of Abner, Saul's commander-in-chief. 1Sa_14:51. (B.C. 1093-1055).
2. One of David's mighty men. 1Ch_11:32. In 2Sa_23:31, he is called Abi-Albon. (B.C. 1053).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ā?bi-el, ab?yel, a-bı̄?el (אביאל, 'ăbhı̄'ēl, ?my father is God,? or ?God is father?):
(1) A descendant of Benjamin the son of Jacob. Father of Kish the father of King Saul, and also, apparently, the father of Ner the father of Saul's general, Abner (1Sa_9:1; 1Sa_14:51).
(2) One of David's mighty men (1Ch_11:32), called ABI-ALBON, Which See, In 2Sa_23:31.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Abiel, 1
Ab?iel (Father of strength, i.e. strong), the father of Kish, whose son Saul was the first king of Israel, and of Ner, whose son Abner was captain of the host to his cousin Saul (1Sa_9:1; 1Sa_14:51).
Abiel, 2
Abiel, one of the thirty most distinguished men of David's army (1Ch_11:32). He is called Abi-albon in 2Sa_23:31; a name which has precisely the same signification (father of strength) as the other.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Abiel
(Heb. Abiel', אֲבַיאֵלlit. father [i.e. possessor] of God, i.e. pious, or perhaps father of strength, i.e. strong; Sept. Αβιήλ), the name of two men.
1. The son of Zeror, a Benjamite (1Sa_9:1), and father of Ner (1Sa_14:51), which last was the grandfather of Saul, the first king of Israel (1Ch_8:33; 1Ch_9:39). B.C. 1093. In 1Sa_9:1 he is called the father (q.v.) of Kish, meaning grandfather. SEE NER.
2. An Arbathite, one of David's distinguished warriors (1Ch_11:32). B.C. 1053. In the parallel passage he is called ABI-ALBON SEE ABI-ALBON (2Sa_23:31). SEE DAVID.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.