BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1292
ba.rakh.el — Barachel
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Job.32.2; father of: Elihu (H0453K) § Barachel = "God blesses" father of Elihu
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Whom God has blessed, a Buzite, the father of Elihu, one of Job’s friends (Job 32:2, 6).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
