Bethuel
And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter [art] thou? And she
said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare
unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the
bracelets upon her hands....
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And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife,
the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to
Laban the Syrian....
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Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's
father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of
Laban thy mother's brother....
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(בתואל – Hebrew for "house of God"), in the Hebrew Bible, was
an Aramean man,[1] the youngest son of Nahor and Milcah,[2]
the nephew of Abraham, and the father of Laban and Rebekah.[3]
Bethuel was also a town in the territiory of the tribe of
Simeon, west of the Dead Sea.[4] Some scholars[5] identify it
with Bethul[6] and Bethel in southern Jud...
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be-thu'-el (bethu'el; "dweller in God"): A son of Nahor and
Milcah, Abraham's nephew, father of Laban and Rebekah (Gen
22:23; 24:15,24,47,50; 25:20; 28:2,5). In the last-named
passage, he is surnamed "the Syrian." The only place where he
appears as a leading character in the narrative is in
connection with Rebekah's betrothal to Isaac; an...
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Son of Nahor, father of Rebekah
Ge 22:22,23; 24:15,24; 25:20; 28:2,5...
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(dweller in God), the son of Nahor by Milcah; nephew of
Abraham, and father of Rebekah, Ge 22:22,23; 24:15,24,47; 28:2
In Ge 25:20 and Ge 28:5 he is called "Bethuel the Syrian."...
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man of God, or virgin of God, or house of God. (1.) The son of
Nahor by Milcah; nephew of Abraham, and father of
Rebekah (Gen.
22:22, 23; 24:15, 24, 47). He appears in person only
once
(24:50).
(2.) A southern city of Judah (1 Chr. 4:30); called
also
Bethul (Josh. 19:4) and Bethel (12:16; 1 Sam. 30:27)....
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"The Syrian" (Aramite).
1. Nahor's son by Miclah, nephew of Abraham, father
of Rebekah (Genesis 22:22-23; Genesis 24:15; Genesis 24:24;
Genesis 24:47; Genesis 28:2). Bethuel appears personally
only in Genesis 24:50, and then after his son. Blunt
(Undesigned Coincidences) notices Bethuel's consistent
insignificance in the whole affair of his ...
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