Dict: smith - ABEL

smith:

ABEL - A>@ - (i.e., breath, vapor, transitoriness , probably so called from the shortness of his life), the second son of Adam, murdered by his brother Cain, kjv@Genesis:4:1-16) he was a keeper or feeder of sheep. Our Lord spoke of Abel as the first martyr, kjv@Matthew:23:35) so did the early Church subsequently. The traditional site of his murder and his grave are pointed out near Damascus.

ABEL - A>@ - the name of several places in Palestine, probably signifies a meadow .

ABELBETHMAACHAH - A>@ - (meadow of the house of oppression), a town of some importance, (2 Samuel 20:15) in the extreme north of Palestine, which fell an early prey to the invading kings of Syria, (Kings:15:20) and Assyria. ( kjv@2Kings:15:29)

ABELMAIM - A>@ - (Abel on the waters), also called simply Abel, (2 Samuel 20:14,18) another name for Abel-bethmaachah. ( kjv@2Chronicles:16:4)

ABELMEHOLAH - A>@ - (meadow of the dance), in the northern pat of the Jordan valley, (Kings:4:12) to which the routed Bedouin host fled from Gideon, kjv@Judges:7:22) Here Elisha was found at his plough by Elijah returning up the valley from Horeb. (Kings:19:16-19)

ABELMIZRAIM - A>@ - (meadow of Egypt), the name given by the Canaanites to the floor of Atad, at which Joseph, his brothers and the Egyptians made their mourning for Jacob. kjv@Genesis:50:11) It was beyond (on the east of) Jordan.
See ATAD. (Schaff and others say it was on the west bank, for the writer was on the east of Jordan. It was near Jericho, or perhaps Hebron.)

ABELSHITTIM - A>@ - (the meadow of the acacias), in the "plains" of Moab, on the low level of the Jordan valley, opposite Jericho. The last resting-place of Israel before crossing the Jordan. kjv@Numbers:33:49) The place is most frequently mentioned by its shorter name of Shittim.
See SHITTAH TREE, SHITTIM, SHITTIM.

ABEL, STONE OF - A>@ - (the great abel), the place where the ark rested in the field of Joshua at Beth-shemesh. ( kjv@1Samuel:6:18)