God is my king, or counselor
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
MALCHIEL.The eponym of an Asherite family (Gen_46:17, Num_26:45, 1Ch_7:31). The gentilic name Malchielites occurs in Num_26:45.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Num_26:45. Father, i.e. founder, of Birzavith (1Ch_7:31).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
mal?ki-el (מלכּיאל, malkı̄'ēl, ?God is king?): Grandson of Asher (Gen_46:17; Num_26:45; 1Ch_7:31).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Malchiel
(Heb. Malkiel', מִלְכַּיאֵל, king of God; Sept. Μελχιήλ), the second of the two sons of Beriah, son of Asher (Gen_46:17); he became the father (? founder) of Birzavith (1Ch_7:31), and his descendants bore his name (Num_26:45). B.C. 1856. Josephus (Ant. 2:7, 4) reckons him with Heber among the six sons of Asher, thus making up the number of Jacob's children and grandchildren to seventy, without reckoning great-grandchildren.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.