Azriel (or Ezriel) is a Hebrew name meaning "God helps". 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

  • Asriel (disambiguation)
  • Asrael, a leggenda or opera in four acts
  • Asrael Symphony, Czech composer Josef Suk's Second Symphony
  • Azrael (disambiguation)

References