Bible Person
Meaning: their breasts; friendship; a judge · Male · 2 cross references
This Dedan entry refers to the Cushite-linked descendant in Genesis 10, not to the later Dedan descended from Abraham through Keturah. It belongs to the table of nations and the broad post-flood mapping of peoples. First appears in Gen 10:7.1
AI summary: This Dedan matters because the cross references place him within the spreading branches of nations after the flood, helping structure the world of peoples around Israel's later story. Even without a narrative episode, the name contributes to Scripture's effort to remember humanity in ordered familial terms. Taken together, the material presents this Dedan as an ancestral figure in the table of nations whose line helps widen the biblical geography of peoples.1
Central Figure
Dedan
Meaning: their breasts; friendship; a judge
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.