Bible Person
Meaning: that bows before God · Male · 2 cross references
Barachel is the father of Elihu in the book of Job and a Buzite by lineage. He belongs to the family background of the younger speaker who enters late into the debate. First appears in Job 32:2.1
AI summary: Barachel matters because the cross references place his name behind Elihu, the figure who speaks after Job's three friends and before the divine speeches. Though Barachel himself does not argue, his preserved identity helps locate Elihu within a wider familial and ethnic setting. Taken together, the material presents Barachel as the paternal background to one of Job's most debated interlocutors.1
Central Figure
Barachel
Meaning: that bows before God
Whom God has blessed, a Buzite, the father of Elihu, one of Job’s friends (Job 32:2, 6).
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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.