Encyclopedia of The Bible – Ucal
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Ucal

UCAL u’ kəl (אֻכָֽל, I am strong). One of two men—perhaps sons, disciples, or contemporaries—to whom Agur addressed his oracular sayings; the other was Ithiel (Prov 30:1). The name Ucal is not found anywhere else in the OT. The name Ithiel belongs to a Benjaminite (Neh 11:7). Neither the LXX nor the Vul. recognizes proper names here. For these and other considerations some scholars discard Ithiel and Ucal as proper names by rearranging the Heb. text (without changing the consonants), and the last three words of the v. are then rendered, “I have wearied myself, O God, I have wearied myself, O God, and am consumed.”