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bᵊṣalʾēl בְּצַלְאֵל ‘Bezalel’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: probably from ṣēl צֵל ‘shadow’ and ʾēl אֵל ‘god’ with prepositional prefix
Roots: צל אל

bᵊṣalʾēl pr n m pers
Bezaleel = "in the shadow (i.e. protection) of God"
1) son of Uri and grandson of Hur; a skilled Judahite artisan in all works of metal, wood, and stone and one of the architects of the tabernacle
2) an Israelite, one of the sons of Pahath-moab, in the time of Ezra who had taken a strange wife

Mentioned in Exodus 36:1, 36:2, 31:2, 35:30, 38:22, 37:1 Ezra 10:30 1 Chronicles 2:20 2 Chronicles 1:5

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