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roÌ„ō´el (רעוּ×ל, re‛uÌ„'eÌ„l, “God is his friendâ€; the Septuagint ῬαγουηÌλ, RhagoueÌ„Ìl):
(1) In the genealogical system Reuel is both a son of Esau by Basemath (, , , ; , ) and the father of the father-in-law of Moses, Hobab (). In the account of the marriage of Zipporah to Moses (-21) Jethro seems to be called Reuel (compare HOBAB). The various names of Jethro perplexed the Talmudists, too; some held that his real name was “Hobab,†and that Reuel was his father. Reuel is probably a clan name (Gray, “Nu,†ICC), and Hobab is a member of the clan (“sonâ€) of Reuel (, the King James Version reads “Raguelâ€).
(2) The father of Eliasaph, the prince of Gad (), called (by some copyist's mistake) “Deuel†in ; , ; . The Septuagint has uniformly Rhagouēl.
(3) A Benjamite ().