Yahoel ( cu, Иаоилъ, reconstructed el, Ιαοὴλ, reconstructed he, יהואל or ; also spelled ''Jahoel'', ''Jehoel,'' etc. in English and ''Yaoel'' in French) is the name of an angel appearing in the Old Church Slavonic manuscripts of the Apocalypse of Abraham, a pseudepigraphical work dating from after the siege of Jerusalem (70). The name is thought to be a compound of the Tetragrammaton and El (deity), ''ʔēl'', the Hebrew word for 'God'.Alexander Kulik (2004) ''Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha: Toward the Original of the Apocalypse of Abraham'', p. 55–56 fn. He is an associate of Michael (archangel), Michael (Apoc. Abr.10:17) charged to restrain Leviathan and destroy idolaters (10:10–14). Another later pseudepigraphical rabbinical work ascribed to Ishmael ben Elisha, Hebrew 3 Enoch 48d, gives Yahoel as one of the 70 names of Metatron, which makes sense in light of the character and role of Yahoel in the Apocalypse of Abraham.Bernard Barc ed. ''Colloque international sur les textes de Nag Hammadi: Québec, 22–25 août 1978'' In the 13th century, kabbalistic ''Berit Menuchah, Berith Menucha'' of Abraham ben Isaac of Granada, Abraham Merimon of Granada Yahoel is the angel of fire. Several popular dictionaries of angels, such as Gustav Davidson's ''A dictionary of angels: including the fallen angels'' (1967) repeat the claim that Jehoel was (in unidentified Jewish texts) the chief angel of the Seraphim. No source for this claim is forthcoming.

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