Bible Person

Zibeon

Meaning: iniquity that dwells · Male · 5 cross references

Zibeon is one of the Horite chiefs connected with Seir and the father of Ajah and Anah. His line helps fill out the pre-Edomite and Edomite-related genealogical landscape in Genesis and Chronicles. First appears in Gen 36:20.1

AI summary: Zibeon matters because the cross references preserve another major branch within the Horite families of Seir. Through his children and sibling ties, the text situates his household within the wider network of peoples that surround and precede Esau's settlement. This gives needed historical texture to Edom's environment. Taken together, the material presents Zibeon as a Horite clan figure in the larger Seir-Edom genealogical map.1