Bible Person
Meaning: fatness; ashes · Male · 2 cross references
Dishon is a Horite descendant in the Seir genealogies, preserved in the family world surrounding Edom. He belongs to the named ancestral background of a neighboring people. First appears in Gen 36:25.1
AI summary: Dishon matters because the cross references place him within the remembered family structure of Seir's descendants. These small genealogical entries are part of Scripture's wider practice of mapping the peoples around Israel by line and name rather than leaving them anonymous. Taken together, the material presents Dishon as a Horite ancestral figure contributing to the genealogical texture of Edom's background.1
Central Figure
Dishon
Meaning: fatness; ashes
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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.