GIDDEL

(Gidʹdel) [(God) has increased, or reared].

1. An ancestor of a family of Nethinim temple slaves who were among those who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylonian exile in 537 B.C.E.—Ezra 2:1, 2, 43, 47; Neh. 7:49.

2. The paternal head of one of the families of “the sons of the servants of Solomon” who are listed among those who returned to Jerusalem and Judah in 537 B.C.E.—Ezra 2:1, 2, 55, 56; Neh. 7:58.