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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - יְחִיאֵל
יְחִיאֵל
H3171
Transliteration: Yᵉchîyʼêl
Pronunciation: yekh-ee-ale'
Definition: Jehiel
Original: יחואל יחיאל o Transliteration: yechı̂y'êl yechav'êl Phonetic: yekh-ee-ale'
BDB Definition:
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