Bible Person
Meaning: burning; foolish; mad · Male · 2 cross references
Beor is the father of Bela, one of the early kings of Edom, and appears in the royal notices of Edomite succession. He belongs to the dynastic memory of Israel's neighboring kingdom. First appears in Gen 36:32.1
AI summary: Beor matters because the cross references place him at the start of a named royal line in Edom. Such details show that the Bible remembers the surrounding nations not only as enemies or trading partners but also as societies with their own dynastic order. Taken together, the material presents Beor as an Edomite royal father whose line contributes to the remembered structure of neighboring kingship.1
Central Figure
Beor
Meaning: burning; foolish; mad
The father of Bela, one of the kings of Edom (Gen.
Children
The father of Bela, one of the kings of Edom (Gen. 36:32). 3
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.