Bible Person
Male · 5 cross references
Lotan is one of the Horite sons of Seir and the head of a clan in the Seir genealogies. His branch contributes to the Bible's mapping of the peoples living in the region later associated with Edom. First appears in Gen 36:20.1
AI summary: Lotan matters because the cross references preserve one of the leading Horite family lines in Seir. Through his children and siblings, the text fills out the regional kinship structure into which Esau's descendants later settle and interact. These names help situate Edom historically and geographically. Taken together, the material presents Lotan as a Horite clan ancestor within the larger Seir-Edom genealogical world.1
Central Figure
Lotan
Coverer, one of the sons of Seir, the Horite (Gen.
Coverer, one of the sons of Seir, the Horite (Gen. 36:20, 29). 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.