Bible Person

Hushim

Male · 2 cross references

This Hushim entry refers to the Danite ancestral figure in the genealogical tradition, not to Shaharaim's wife elsewhere in Chronicles. The evidence is terse, and names in lists like this can function as either an individual ancestor or the remembered head of a family branch, so the page should be read with that genealogical ambiguity in view. First appears in Gen 46:23.1

AI summary: This Hushim matters because the cross references preserve Dan's line in compressed genealogical form. Even where the record is short, Scripture uses names like this to carry tribal memory forward from the patriarchal family into Israel's later reckoning. Taken together, the material presents this Hushim as a Danite ancestral name that helps preserve the continuity of the tribe.1