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Strong's #3171 - יְחִיאֵל
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- Jehiel = "God lives"
- a Levite and one of the chief musicians in the time of David
- a Gershonite Levite who had charge of the treasures in the time of David
- son of Hachmoni and an officer of David and tutor of David´s sons
- a son of king Jehoshaphat of Judah put to death by his brother Jehoram
- Hemanite who took part in the restoration of king Hezekiah
- a Levite and overseer in the time of Hezekiah
- a ruler of the temple during the reforms of Josiah
- father of Obadiah of the sons of Joab in the time of Ezra
- father of Shechaniah of the sons of Elam in the time of Ezra
- a son of Elam who put away his foreign wife in the time of Ezra
- a priest of the sons of Harim who also had to put away his foreign wife in the time of Ezra
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II. חוה (√ of following; Arabic 
collect, gather; 
circle of tents compare II. חַי below חיה, Arabic 
).
יְחִיאֵל proper name, masculine( may El live; Phoenician יחואלן, יחומלך see Eut ZMG 1876,136) — ᵐ5 usually Ιειηλ, Ιαιηλ; —
1 one of David's chief musicians 1 Chronicles 15:18 (ᵐ5 Ιειηλ, ᵐ5 L Ιαιηλ), 1 Chronicles 15:20 (ᵐ5 Ειθηλ, ᵐ5 L Ιειηλ), 1 Chronicles 16:5 (ᵐ5 Ειειηλ, ᵐ5 L Ιαιηλ).
2 one of David's chiefs of the Levites 1 Chronicles 23:8 (ᵐ5 Ι(ει)ηλ), 1 Chronicles 29:8 (ᵐ5 Βεσιηλ, A ᵐ5 L Ιειηλ).
3 tutor of David's sons 1 Chronicles 27:32 (ᵐ5 Ιε(ρι)ηλ, ᵐ5 L Ιωηλ).
4 son of Jehoshaphat 2 Chronicles 21:2.
5יְחִו֯אֵל Hemanite of Hezekiah's reign 2 Chronicles 29:14.
6 over-seer in Hezekiah's reign 2 Chronicles 31:13.
7 ruler of the temple in Josiah's reign 2 Chronicles 35:8.
8 contemporaries of Ezra, Ezra 8:9 (ᵐ5 Ιεμα A Ιεειηλ, ᵐ5 L Ιειηλ), Ezra 10:2,21,6.
יְחִיאֵל (probably for יְחַיֶּה אֵל “whom God preserves alive,” [“ ‘God liveth,’ according to Simonis”]), [Jehiel], pr.n. of several men, as of a son of Jehoshaphat, 1 Chronicles 21:2. Patron. יְחִיאֵלִי 1 Chronicles 26:21, 22 1 Chronicles 26:22.
