Bible Person
Meaning: a servant; laborer · Male · 5 cross references
Ebed is remembered as the father of Gaal in the Shechem rebellion against Abimelech. His own role is indirect, but his name remains attached to one of Judges' most unstable local uprisings. First appears in Judg 9:26.1
AI summary: Ebed matters because the cross references preserve him as the named father behind Gaal's attempt to seize influence in Shechem. In a chapter already full of opportunism and violent ambition, even this brief patronymic helps locate Gaal within a remembered family identity. Ebed himself does not act, but his name stands inside the social texture of the revolt. Taken together, the material presents Ebed as a minor ancestral figure tied to the Shechemite unrest in Judges.1
Central Figure
Ebed
Meaning: a servant; laborer
Slave, the father of Gaal, in whom the men of Shechem “put confidence” in their conspiracy against Abimelech (Judg.
Slave, the father of Gaal, in whom the men of Shechem “put confidence” in their conspiracy against Abimelech (Judg. 9:26, 26, 30, 31). 3
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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.