Bible Person

Lud

Meaning: Ludim · Male · 2 cross references

Lud is listed among the sons of Shem in the table of nations. The page uses a person-style entry for an ancestral name that stands behind a people remembered in biblical geography and ethnography. First appears in Gen 10:22.1

AI summary: Lud matters because the cross references place him inside Genesis' ordered account of how the nations are remembered after the flood. Even without a narrative scene, the name contributes to Scripture's attempt to describe the wider human world in familial form. Taken together, the material presents Lud as an ancestral node in the biblical mapping of peoples beyond Israel.1