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Strong's #3171 - יְחִיאֵל
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Jehiel = “God lives”
1) a Levite and one of the chief musicians in the time of David
2) a Gershonite Levite who had charge of the treasures in the time of David
3) son of Hachmoni and an officer of David and tutor of David’s sons
4) a son of king Jehoshaphat of Judah put to death by his brother Jehoram
5) Hemanite who took part in the restoration of king Hezekiah
6) a Levite and overseer in the time of Hezekiah
7) a ruler of the temple during the reforms of Josiah
8) father of Obadiah of the sons of Joab in the time of Ezra
9) father of Shechaniah of the sons of Elam in the time of Ezra
10) a son of Elam who put away his foreign wife in the time of Ezra
11) a priest of the sons of Harim who also had to put away his foreign wife in the time of Ezra
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II. חוה (√ of following; Arabic 
collect, gather; 
circle of tents compare II. חַי below חיה, Arabic 
).
יְחִיאֵל proper name, masculine( may El live; Phoenician יחואלן, יחומלך see Eut ZMG 1876,136) — ᵐ5 usually Ιειηλ, Ιαιηλ; —
1 one of David's chief musicians 1 Chronicles 15:18 (ᵐ5 Ιειηλ, ᵐ5 L Ιαιηλ), 1 Chronicles 15:20 (ᵐ5 Ειθηλ, ᵐ5 L Ιειηλ), 1 Chronicles 16:5 (ᵐ5 Ειειηλ, ᵐ5 L Ιαιηλ).
2 one of David's chiefs of the Levites 1 Chronicles 23:8 (ᵐ5 Ι(ει)ηλ), 1 Chronicles 29:8 (ᵐ5 Βεσιηλ, A ᵐ5 L Ιειηλ).
3 tutor of David's sons 1 Chronicles 27:32 (ᵐ5 Ιε(ρι)ηλ, ᵐ5 L Ιωηλ).
4 son of Jehoshaphat 2 Chronicles 21:2.
5יְחִו֯אֵל Hemanite of Hezekiah's reign 2 Chronicles 29:14.
6 over-seer in Hezekiah's reign 2 Chronicles 31:13.
7 ruler of the temple in Josiah's reign 2 Chronicles 35:8.
8 contemporaries of Ezra, Ezra 8:9 (ᵐ5 Ιεμα A Ιεειηλ, ᵐ5 L Ιειηλ), Ezra 10:2,21,6.
יְחִיאֵל (probably for יְחַיֶּה אֵל “whom God preserves alive,” [“ ‘God liveth,’ according to Simonis”]), [Jehiel], pr.n. of several men, as of a son of Jehoshaphat, 1 Chronicles 21:2. Patron. יְחִיאֵלִי 1 Chronicles 26:21, 22 1 Chronicles 26:22.
