Bible Person
Meaning: God with them · Male · 2 cross references
Lemuel is the king addressed in Proverbs 31 by a maternal oracle that warns against destructive rule and urges justice for the vulnerable. The page preserves him as a remembered royal figure whose identity is less clear than the wisdom attached to his name. First appears in Prov 31:1.1
AI summary: Lemuel matters because his cross references frame the opening of Proverbs 31 as instruction for kingship shaped by restraint, clarity, and advocacy for those without power. He functions less as a developed narrative character than as the recipient of a durable teaching on righteous rule. Taken together, the material presents Lemuel as the named royal setting for one of Scripture's most pointed summaries of just leadership.1
Central Figure
Lemuel
Meaning: God with them
Dedicated to God, a king whom his mother instructed (Prov.
Dedicated to God, a king whom his mother instructed (Prov. 31:1-9). Nothing is certainly known concerning him. The rabbis identified him with Solomon. 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.