Bible Person
Male · 7 cross references
Mahalaleel, also written Maleleel in Luke, is the son of Cainan and father of Jared in the early Sethite genealogy. He belongs to the preserved sequence that links Adam's line to Noah. First appears in Gen 5:12.1
AI summary: Mahalaleel matters because the cross references retain him as a stable link in the repeated genealogical witness of Scripture. His life is not expanded through narrative scenes, yet his name persists in Genesis, Chronicles, and Luke as part of the line that carries redemptive history forward. That repetition is itself theological, showing that the ancestry is not incidental. Taken together, the material presents Mahalaleel as an early patriarch whose importance lies in the faithfully transmitted line of generations.1
Central Figure
Mahalaleel
The son of Cainan, of the line of Seth (Gen.
The son of Cainan, of the line of Seth (Gen. 5:12-17); called Maleleel (Luke 3:37). 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
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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.