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Ammiel
AMMIEL (ăm'ĭ-ĕl, Heb. ‘ammî’ēl, my kinsman is God)
The son of Gemalli and spy of the tribe of Dan sent out by Moses (
AMMIEL ăm’ ĭ əl (עַמִּיאֵ֖ל, my kinsman is God). 1. Son of Gemalli, of the tribe of Dan; one of the twelve spies sent by Moses into Canaan (
2. The father of Machir, in whose house Mephibosheth was hidden from David (
3. The father of Bathshua (or Bathsheba), a wife of David and the mother of Solomon (
4. The sixth son of Obed-edom, whose family took care of the S gate of the Temple and the storehouse in the time of David (
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
(`ammi’el, "my kinsman is God"; (Ameiel)): A name borne by four men in the Old Testament.
(1) One of the twelve spies sent into Canaan by Moses; son of Gemalli, of the tribe of Da (
(2) A Benjamite, the father of Machir, a friend of David, living at Lodebar in Gilead (
(3) Father of Bathshua (or Bathsheba), one of David’s wives, who was mother of Solomon (
(4) The sixth son of Obed-edom, a Levite, one of the doorkeepers of the tabernacle of God in David’s life-time (