Asiel

(created by God).

1. A Simeonite whose descendant Jehu lived in the reign of Hezekiah. (1 Chronicles 4:35)

2. One of the five swift writers whom Esdras was commanded to take to write the law and the history of the world. 2 Esd. 14:24.

a'-si-el, as'-i-el (Asiel; the King James Version Asael (Tobit 1:1)):

(1) Grandfather of Jehu, one of the Simeonite "princes" mentioned in 1Ch 4:35 as sharing Judah's inheritance (see Jos 19:9).

(2) A swift writer engaged by Ezra to transcribe the law (2 Esdras 14:24).

(3) An ancestor of Tobit (Tobit 1:1). Compare Jahzeel or Jahziel (Ge 46:24).