Bible Location
Meaning: book; scribe; number · 1 cross reference · Modern-day map available
Sephar was the boundary-place of the Joktanite territory in Genesis. It is important because it belongs to the early ethnogeographic framing of Arabia and the peoples descended from Joktan. First appears in Gen 10:30.1
Place meaning
book; scribe; number
Coordinates
14.55, 44.39
First appears
Gen 10:30
AI summary: Sephar matters because Genesis maps peoples not only through ancestry but through named territorial extents. The place belongs to the earliest remembered contours of Arabia.1
Place meaning
book; scribe; number
Latitude
14.55
Longitude
44.39
Bible references
1
Numbering, (Gen. 10:30), supposed by some to be the ancient Himyaritic capital, “Shaphar,” Zaphar, on the Indian Ocean, between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.