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ā´bel (,אבל 'ābhēl, “meadow”): A word used in several compound names of places. It appears by itself as the name of a city concerned in the rebellion of Sheba (; compare ), though it is there probably an abridgment of the name Abel-beth-maacah. In , where the Hebrew has “the great meadow,” and the Greek “the great stone,” the King James Version translates “the great stone of Abel.