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Yechiel (Hebrew: יְחִיאֵל) is a Hebrew masculine given name meaning May God live or God shall live. Several of the people in the Bible with this name are Levites.Yehiels in the bible include the second of Jehoshaphat’s six sons one of the Levites of the family of Heman who assisted Hezekiah in his work of reformation the father of Obadiah and one of the sons of Elam.Alternative spellings of Yechiel include Jehiel Yehiel Yechi’el. Yiddish variants include Ichel Ychel and Echiel.