Bible Person
Meaning: Onan · Male · 2 cross references
This Onam entry refers to a Horite descendant of Seir in the Edomite genealogies, not to the Judahite family figure of the same name. He belongs to the pre-Israelite and neighboring family structures preserved in Genesis and Chronicles. First appears in Gen 36:23.1
AI summary: This Onam matters because his cross references place the name among the descendants of Seir, contributing to the remembered structure of peoples inhabiting the region alongside Edom. Even without narrative action, the entry helps locate Israel's story within a populated and genealogically mapped world. Taken together, the material presents this Onam as part of the Horite ancestral framework.1
Central Figure
Onam
Meaning: Onan
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person 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.