Editing Adriel

{{Short description|Person mentioned in the Bible}}
{{other}}
{{Infobox noble
| name = Adriel
| spouse = [[Merab]]
| father = Barzilai the Meholathite
}}

'''Adriel''' (Hebrew: עדריאל) (Aramaic: ܥܕܪܝܐܝܠ) (literally  [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%93%D7%A8 עדר] (flock) י (of) אל (El)) was a person mentioned in the Bible. Adriel was a nobleman in the [[Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy)|ancient kingdom of Israel]].

The name Adriel is translated from the Hebrew word עַדְרִיאֵל (ad-ree-ale'), which means "flock of God". עַדְרִיאֵל comes from two Hebrew words: עֵ֫דֶר (ay'-der) and אֵל (ale). עֵ֫דֶר (ay'-der) means "flock" and comes from another Hebrew word - עָדַר (aw-dar') - that means "to dig" or "to arrange". אֵל (ale) means "God".<ref name="cb adriel">Cheyne and Black (1899), ''Encyclopaedia Biblica,'' entry for "Adriel." [https://archive.org/stream/Encyclopaedia_Biblica_Vol_I_to_IV/EncyclodaediaBiblica_Vol_I#page/n64/mode/1up]</ref><ref name="strongs adriel">Strongs Exhaustive Concordance/Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.  Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. [http://biblehub.com/hebrew/5741.htm]</ref> Adriel was the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. According to 1 Samuel 18:19, [[Saul the King|Saul]] married his daughter [[Merab]] to Adriel.

However, 2 Samuel 21:653 in the [[Masoretic Text]], records that [[Michal]], another daughter of Saul "brought up" [R.V. "bare"] five sons with Adriel. This is in apparent conflict with 2 Samuel 6:23, which records that Michal was barren, and 2 Samuel 3, which indicates that Michal was married to [[David]], not Adriel. This could also simply be a case of multiple people having the same name.

The claim that Michal "brought up" these five sons has been taken to mean either that she treated them as if she had been their own mother, or that for "[[Michal]]" we should read "[[Merab]]" in 2 Samuel 21:8, as in 1 Sam. 18:19.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mandel|first=David|title=Who's Who in the Jewish Bible|date=2007|publisher=Jewish Publication Society|isbn=978-0-8276-0863-4|pages=20}}</ref>

Due to that later discrepancy that states Michal as the wife of Adriel, instead of Merab as first said in 1st Samuel, many scholars believe this to be an ancient [[copyist]]'s [[error]] that should have read Merab in 2 Samuel 21:8.<ref>{{cite book|title=The New Bible Dictionary|date=1962|publisher=Tyndale House Publishers|location=Wheaton, IL}}</ref>

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