Lemuel

Gender Masculine
Usage Biblical, Mormon, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Scripts לְמוּאֵל(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced Pron. /ˈlɛm.ju.əl/(English)  [key·simplify]

Meaning & History

Means "for God" in Hebrew, from the proposition לְמוֹ (lemo) combined with אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". This was the name of a king briefly mentioned in Proverbs in the Old Testament. In the Book of Mormon it is the name of a rebellious son of Lehi and Sariah. It is also borne by the hero of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels (1726).

Related Names

Rootslemo + ʾel
User SubmissionLemuël

Popularity

People think this name is

classic   mature   formal   upper class   natural   wholesome   strong   strange   serious  

Categories

archers, black history, Book of Mormon figures, currently out of the US top 1000, ends in -el, gift, kings, literature, parkourists, The Man in the High Castle characters, theophoric names, William Faulkner characters

Sources & References

  1. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h3927, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h3927.
Entry updated October 6, 2024