LEMUEL
“Consecrated to God.”
Author of Pr. 31, chapter in which he remembers his mother’s instructions. Regarding his identity, there are those who, instead of translating the word that follows “king Lemuel” as “the prophecy”, would leave it as their own name, reading Lemuel king of Massa, identifying him as king of the kingdom of Massa (Gen. 25 :14), son of Ishmael, and supposedly head of a tribe or sheikh of a territory.
However, the same term, “the prophecy”, “massã'”, is used about the words of Agur son of Jaque (Gen. 30:1), which militates against this position. Others take the position that Lemuel is a title given to Solomon, to whom the paternity of Pr. 30 and 31 is then attributed.