HIEL

(Hiʹel) [shortened form of Ahiel, meaning “My Brother Is God; Brother of God”].

A Bethelite who rebuilt Jericho during Ahab’s reign in the tenth century B.C.E. In fulfillment of the oath Joshua had pronounced at the destruction of Jericho over 500 years earlier, Hiel laid the foundation of the city at the forfeit of Abiram his firstborn and put up its doors at the forfeit of Segub his youngest child.​—Jos 6:26; 1Ki 16:33, 34.