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Strong's #1328 - בְּתוּאֵל
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Bethuel = “God destroys” or “man of God” or “dweller in God”
1) nephew of Abraham, son of Nahor by Milcah, father of Rebekah (noun proper masculine)
2) a town of Simeon in the south (noun proper locative)
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II. בְּתוּאֵל proper name, of a location in Simeon 1 Chronicles 4:30 = בְּתוּל Joshua 19:4; כְּסִיל Joshua 15:30; בֵּיתְאֵל 1 Samuel 30:27 (see above); yet compare Lag BN 64; site unknown.
בְּתוּל see II. בְּתוּאֵל. above
בִּתְיָה see בַּת below בן, p. 124.
בָּֽתִּים see בית.
בתל (compare Arabic 
sever, separate).
בְּתוּאֵל pr. n.
(1) of a man (i.q. מְתוּאֵל “man of God”), [Bethuel], the father of Laban and Rebecca, Genesis 22:22, 23 Genesis 22:23, 24:15, 24 Genesis 24:24, 47 Genesis 24:47, 50 Genesis 24:50, 25:20 28:2, Genesis 28:5.
(2) of a place (pr. “tarrying of God,” from بتا i.q. בּוּת), a town in the tribe of Simeon, 1 Chronicles 4:30, which in Joshua 19:4 is written contr. בְּתוּל. In Joshua 15:30, in the same series of cities (as to this remarkable corruption see Relandi Palæstina, p. 152, 153), there is found כְּסִיל.
