REUEL (see also Raguel) rōō’ əl (רְעוּאֵֽל; LXX ̔Ραγουηλ; meaning friend, companion of God). 1. Son of Esau by Basemath the daughter of Ishmael (Gen 36:3, 4, 10; 1 Chron 1:35) and father of Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah, Edomite clan chiefs (Gen 36:13, 17; 1 Chron 1:37).

2. A priest of Midian who gave his daughter, Zipporah, as a wife to Moses (Exod 2:16-22). Like many in the ancient Near E he had double names, Reuel/Jethro (cf. Exod 4:18-20). (On double names see K. A. Kitchen, Ancient Orient and Old Testament [1966], 123.) He was also the father of Hobab, a Kenite and brother-in-law of Moses (Num 10:29; Judg 4:11; tr. Raguel in KJV in Num 10:29).

3. The father of Eliasaph, the captain of the host of God at the time of the census in Sinai (Num 2:14). The parallel passages in the MT (Num 1:14; 7:42, 47; 10:20) give Deuel, a common scribal error confusing “D” and “R,” but the LXX reads Reuel in all these passages.

4. A Benjaminite whose name occurs in the list of the inhabitants of Jerusalem before the captivity (1 Chron 9:8).