Bible Person
Meaning: God hasteth · Male · 3 cross references
Jahzeel is the first named son of Naphtali and an ancestral figure for one of the tribe's family branches. He belongs to the genealogical backbone of Naphtali in both the patriarchal and census traditions. First appears in Gen 46:24.1
AI summary: Jahzeel matters because the cross references preserve his name from Jacob's family list to the wilderness census and Chronicles' retelling. That repetition shows how Israel remembered tribal identity through named ancestral houses across time. Taken together, the material presents Jahzeel as a Naphtalite forefather whose line contributes to the durable structure of the tribe.1
Central Figure
Jahzeel
Meaning: God hasteth
Allotted by God, the first of the sons of Naphtali (Gen.
Allotted by God, the first of the sons of Naphtali (Gen. 46:24). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.