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LEMUEL

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Biblical, Mormon

Other Scripts: לְמוּאֵל (Hebrew)

Pronounced: LEM-yoo-əl (English)   [key]

Means "belonging to God" in Hebrew. This was the name of a king briefly mentioned in Proverbs in the Old Testament. In the Book of Mormon it is the name of a son of Lehi and Sariah. It is also borne by the hero of Jonathan Swift's novel 'Gulliver's Travels' (1726).
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