Azriel
Azriel (or Ezriel) is a Hebrew name meaning "God helps".[1] Notable people with the name include:
People
- Azriel, the father of Seraiah in the Bible, see Jeremiah 36#Verse 26
- Azriel of Gerona (c. 1160–c. 1238), Catalan kabbalist
- Azriel Graeber (born 1948), Talmudic Scholar and founder of the Jewish Scholarship Society
- Azriel Hildesheimer (1820–1899), German rabbi
- Azriel Lévy (born 1934), Logician, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
- Azriel Rabinowitz (1905–1941), Lithuanian rabbi and Holocaust victim
- Azriel Rosenfeld (1931–2004), American professor and expert on computer image analysis
- Asriel Günzig (also known as Azriel Günzig, Ezriel Günzig, or other spellings), a rabbi, scholar, bookseller, editor, and writer
- Ezriel Carlebach (1909–1956), Israeli journalist
Fictional characters
- the title character's name in the Anne Rice novel Servant of the Bones
- Azriel, a character in A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- Azriel, the supernatural antagonist in the Netflix series Warrior Nun (TV series)
Other uses
- Azri'el, a moshav in central Israel
- "Azriel (Angel of Death)" and "Azriel Revisited", songs by rock group The Nice
See also
Search for "azriel" on Wikipedia.
- All pages with titles beginning with Azriel
- All pages with titles containing Azriel
- Asriel (disambiguation)
- Asrael, a leggenda or opera in four acts
- Asrael Symphony, Czech composer Josef Suk's Second Symphony
- Azrael (disambiguation)
References
- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford paperback reference. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1. OCLC 67869278. Retrieved 6 November 2025.