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Biblical PN	1.	Son of ADAM and EVE (Helaman 6:27)

The name ABEL refers in the Book of Mormon only to the biblical figure. For the meaning of the Hebrew PN, cf. hebel.

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-The name '''ABEL''' refers in the Book of Mormon only to the biblical figure. <ref>Though the Hebrew PN ''hevel'' is, according to the 1958 edition of Köhler-Baumgartner ''Lexicon'', p. 224, and in contemporary Bible dictionaries and other reference works, related to the Akkadian ''aplu/ablu,'' "son," and not the Hebrew ''hevel'', "(transitory) breath, wind, exhalation; vanity," it is uncertain from what root the name derives in subsequent editions of Köhler-Baumgartner.</ref> Köhler-Baumgartner provides no certain etymology.
+The name '''ABEL''' refers in the Book of Mormon only to the biblical figure. For the meaning of the Hebrew PN, cf. ''hebel''.
-==Notes==
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