Bible Person
Meaning: wand of government · Female · 2 cross references
Matred is remembered as the parent of Mehetabel in the royal genealogy of Edom. The entry is brief, but it helps anchor the marriage and household connections surrounding Edomite kingship. First appears in Gen 36:39.1
AI summary: Matred matters because the cross references place the name within the family details attached to one of Edom's kings. Those small notices add domestic texture to what might otherwise be only a political list, showing that even foreign royal lines are remembered through kinship. Taken together, the material presents Matred as a family figure who helps humanize the genealogy of Edom's rulers.1
Central Figure
Matred
Meaning: wand of government
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.