Given name
Mehetabel
“God makes one joy- OUS”·“one who.is favored by God”
Mehetabel is used as a given name. Interpretations include “God makes one joy- OUS” (Hebrew) and “one who.is favored by God” (Hebrew). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Original Hebrewמהיטבאל
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “God makes one joy- OUS” (Hebrew) and “one who.is favored by God” (Hebrew). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
How it developed
From Biblical Hebrew מהיטבאל (m'heitav'el, “whom God benefits”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
In English use, Mehetabel has a related form in Mehitabel. The history of Mehitabel gives this family its wider story. The biblical form Mehetabel appears in the genealogy in Genesis 36:39. Mehitabel later found use among seventeenth-century Puritans, and Don Marquis gave Mehitabel to the cat who accompanies Archy in his poems.
Explained through its name family
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Mehetabel appears in Genesis 36:39, 1 Chronicles 1:50, Nehemiah 6:10.
- Genesis 36:39
- 1 Chronicles 1:50
- Nehemiah 6:10
From biblical name research
Mehetabel’s family of names
Mehetabel has a related form in Mehetabell. Mehetabel has a related form in Meheytabel. In English usage, Mehetabel has a related form in Mehitabel.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Mehitabelvariant · English
- Mehytabellvariant
- Mehytabelvariant
- Mehitabellvariant
- Mehetabellvariant
- Mehitahellevariant
- Meheytabelvariant
- Mettabelvariant
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See also 10
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
- Tobiahshares a root
- Tobijahshares a root
- Tobadonijahshares a root
- Tobshares a root
- Tebethshares a root
- Tabrimmonshares a root
- Tabeelshares a root
- Tabbathshares a root
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