Bible Location
Meaning: wandering · 1 cross reference · Modern-day map available
This Uzal entry is best treated as an ancestral or tribal-origin record that may also echo a regional name, rather than as a standard town page. It is important because some source entries hover between people and place traditions. First appears in Ezek 27:19.1
AI summary: Uzal matters because Genesis maps the world through descendants whose names later attach to regions and peoples. The record belongs to that early ethnogeographic horizon.1
A wanderer, a descendant of Joktan (Gen. 10:27; 1 Chr. 1:21), the founder apparently of one of the Arab tribes; the name also probably of the province they occupied and of their chief city. 3
| Book | Cross-References |
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| Ezek |
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.