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jō´el (יו×ל, yoÌ„'eÌ„l, popularly interpreted as “Yahweh is Godâ€; but see HPN, 153; BDB, 222a):
(1) The firstborn of Samuel (; (Hebrew 18), and supplied in the Revised Version (British and American) of , correctly).
(2) A Simeonite prince (). (3) A Reubenite chief (, ).
(4) A Gadite chief, perhaps the same as (3) (). He might be the chief of “a family or clan whose members might be reckoned as belonging to either or both of the tribes†(Curtis, Chronicles, 122).
(5) A Levite ancestor of Samuel ( (Hebrew 21), called “Shaul†in (Hebrew 9)).
(6) A chief of Issachar ().
(7) One of David's mighty men (), brother of Nathan. has “Igal son of Nathan,†and the Septuagint's Codex Vaticanus has “son†in 1 Chronicles, a reading which Curtis adopts. See IGAL.
(8) A Levite (, , ), probably the Joel of and .
(9) David's tribal chief over half of Manasseh ().
(10) A Levite of Hezekiah's time ().
(11) One of those who had married foreign wives () = “Juel†of 1 Esdras 9:35.
(12) A Benjamite “overseer†in Jerusalem ().
(13) ἸωηÌλ, IoÌ„eÌ„Ìl, the prophet (; ). See following article.