What does the name Abel mean?

Answer 1

A:The name Abel (Hebrew: Hevel), is homonymous with a biblical word that means "breath that vanishes". Undoubtedly the tradents who passed on these stories orally until they were finally written down later in the first millennium BCE needed prompts to help them to remember which names to associate with which storyline and, while it could be argued that Abel was prophetically named, the name must have been a useful prompt to help them remember the storyline.