חֲנַמְאֵל
cha.nam.el
Hanamel
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word חֲנַמְאֵל, Strong's number H2601, is properly named Hanamel. It appears four times in the Hebrew Bible and functions as a personal proper name. As a proper name, Hanamel likely serves to identify a specific individual known to the biblical audience. The name may carry personal, cultural, or familial significance, but without additional context, its meaning or etymology cannot be determined. The frequency of Hanamel's appearance in the Bible, four times, suggests that the individual or their story were considered important or noteworthy, but the context and significance of these occurrences will depend on their relationship to other events and characters in the text in which they are found.
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Occurrences in Scripture
4 total occurrences across the text
‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, “Buy my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.” ’ ”
Jeremiah 32:8“So Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the guard according to Yahweh’s word, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours. Buy it for yourself.’ “Then I knew that this was Yahweh’s word.
Jeremiah 32:9I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
Jeremiah 32:12and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.