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'''Reuel''' or '''Raguel''' ({{langx|he|רְעוּאֵל|Rəʿūʾēl}}; {{langx|xdm|𐤓𐤏𐤀𐤋}} {{smallcaps|rʿʾl}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Ahituv|first=Shmuel|title=Echoes from the Past: Hebrew and Cognate Inscriptions from the Biblical Period|year=2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ma9HwAACAAJ|publisher=Carta|page=355-6|isbn=978-965-220-708-1}}</ref>), meaning "God shall pasture" or more specifically "[[El (god)|El]] shall pasture" (as a shepherd does with his flock)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Strong's Hebrew Concordance - 7462. rā‘ū |url=https://biblehub.com/hebrew/rau_7462.htm|access-date=15 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Strong's Hebrew Concordance - 410. el |url=https://biblehub.com/hebrew/410.htm|access-date=15 September 2022}}</ref> is a Hebrew name associated with several biblical and religious figures.

== Biblical figures ==
Biblical persons with this name are:
* [[Moses]]' father-in-law, also named as [[Jethro (Bible)|Jethro]]<ref>{{cite book|edition=5|editor-first=Michael D.|editor-last=Coogan|editor-first2=Marc Z.|editor-last2=Brettler|editor-first3=Carol A.|editor-last3=Newsom|editor-first4=Pheme|editor-last4=Perkins|first=Carol|last=Meyers|title=The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T05WDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA81|date=1 March 2018|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-027605-8|pages=81–83|quote=Like the rest of the Pentateuch, Exodus contains contradictions and redundancies. For example, Moses' father-in-law is sometimes called Reuel and sometimes Jethro; and the mountain of revelation is Sinai in some passages and Horeb in others.}}</ref> and [[Hobab (biblical figure)|Hobab]]<ref name="Harris2010">{{cite book|first=Stephen|last=Harris|edition=7|title=Understanding The Bible|url=https://archive.org/details/understandingbib07edharr|year=2007|publisher=McGraw-Hill Education|isbn=978-0-07-296548-3|page=93|quote=J [Yahwist Source] names Moses' father-in-law as Reuel or Hobab, whereas E [Elohist Source] knows him as Jethro, priest of Midian.|via=Internet Archive|url-access=registration|access-date=28 April 2025}}</ref> ({{Bibleverse-lb||Judges|4:11|HE}}, {{Bibleverse-lb||Exodus|2:18|HE}}; {{Bibleverse-lb||Numbers|10:29|HE}}).
* A son of [[Esau]], father of Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah ({{Bibleverse-lb||Genesis|36:4,10|HE}}; {{Bibleverse-lb|1|Chronicles|1:35|HE}})
* A [[Gadite]] ({{Bibleverse||Numbers|2:14|HE}}), called also Deuel ({{Hebrew Name|דְּעוּאֵל|Dəʿūʾēl|Dŭʿūʾēl}}) ({{Bibleverse||Numbers|1:14|HE}}; {{Bibleverse-nb||Numbers|7:42|HE}}); the father of the Gadite prince [[Eliasaph]]
* A [[Benjamite]] ({{Bibleverse|1|Chronicles|9:7-8|HE}})
* Father-in-law of [[Tobias]] ({{Bibleverse-lb||Tobit|7:1-15|NRSV}})

== Other people ==

=== First name ===
* [[Reuel Abraham]] (born 1924), Nazi Luftwaffe pilot and Jewish convert
* [[Reuel Denney]] (1913–1995), American poet and academic
* [[Reuel Marc Gerecht]], American writer and political analyst
* [[Reuel Colt Gridley]] (1829–1870), American storekeeper and Civil War fundraiser
* [[Reuel Lochore]] (1903–1991), New Zealand public servant and scholar
* [[Raz Mesinai|Reuel Emanuel "Raz" Mesinai]] (born 1973), American record producer and composer
* [[Reuel Williams]] (1783–1862), American politician from Maine

=== Middle name ===
* [[Jairus Aquino]] (born 1999), Filipino actor
* [[James Reuel Smith]] (1852–1935), American photographer and amateur historian.
* [[John Ronald Reuel Tolkien]] (1892–1973), English writer
* [[Christopher Tolkien]] (1924–2020), son and literary executor of J. R. R. Tolkien
* [[Simon Tolkien]] (born 1959), writer and grandson of J. R. R. Tolkien

=== Patronymic ===
* {{ill|Sophas, son of Raguel|wd=Q134233369|s=1|v=sup}} (1st century), 'of royal lineage', executed during the Jewish Revolt by John, son of Dorcas<ref>{{cite book|author=Josephus|author-link=Josephus|title=The Jewish War|at=4:3:3|url=https://www.sefaria.org/The_War_of_the_Jews.4.3.4?lang=en|access-date=28 April 2025|via=Sefaria}}</ref>

== Landmark houses ==
* [[Capt. Reuel and Lucy Merrill House]], Cumberland Center, Maine
* [[Reuel E. Smith House]], Skaneateles, New York

== Other ==
* [[Raguel (angel)]] – one of the seven [[archangels]] in the rabbinic tradition and the [[Kabbalah]]

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