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Strong's #7467 - רְעוּאֵל
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Reuel or Raguel = “friend of God”
1) a son of Esau by his wife Bashemath, the sister of Ishmael
2) the father-in-law of Moses
2a) also ‘Jethro’
3) father of Eliasaph, the leader of the tribe of Gad at the time of the census at Sinai
4) a Benjamite, ancestor of Elah
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1 Moses' father-in-law Exodus 2:18 (J; ᵐ5 L Ιοθορ), Numbers 10:29 (JE); elsewhere יִתְרוֺ q. v.
2 Edomite Genesis 36:4,10,13,17 (twice in verse) (P), "" 1 Chronicles 1:35,37.
3 Gadite Numbers 2:14, see דְּעוּאל p. 396.
4 Benjamite 1 Chronicles 9:8.
רְעוּאֵל (“friend of God”), [Reuel, Raguel], pr.n. m.
(1) of a son of Esau, Genesis 36:4, 10 Genesis 36:10.
(2) of the father of Jethro, Exodus 2:18; Numbers 10:29.
(3) 1 Chronicles 9:8. But
(4) Numbers 2:14 for this we should read דְּעוּאֵל compare Numbers 1:14, 7:42 10:20.