Mehetabel; Mehetabeel me-het'-a-bel, me-het'-a-bel (mehetah'el, "whom God makes happy"):
(1) Daughter of Matred, wife of Hadad or Hadar, the 8th and apparently last of the kings of Edom (Genesis 36:39, 1 Chronicles 1:50).
(2) Grandfather of that Shemaiah who played a treacherous part against Nehemiah at the suggestion of Tobiah and Sanballat, by trying to persuade Nehemiah to commit sacrilege (Nehemiah 6:10-13).