Compounded of Nathan, gift—and El, God. We have many of this name, Numbers 1:8; 1 Chronicles 2:14; 1Ch 15:24; 1Ch 24:6; 2 Chronicles 17:7; 2Ch 35:9; Ezra 10:22. And the eminent Nathaniel, so highly spoken of by the Lord Jesus Christ, John 1:47.

See Bartholomew.