Bible Person
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
Central Figure
Lud
Meaning: Ludim
The fourth son of Shem (Gen.
The fourth son of Shem (Gen. 10:22; 1 Chr. 1:17), ancestor of the Lydians probably. 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.