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הֶבֶל

he.vel

Abel

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Strong’s H1893Proper name, a person8 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

abel7

is abel1

In the text

Genesis 4:2הָבֶל
Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

הֶ֫בֶל, הָ֑בֶל n.pr.m. second son of Adam

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.