Bible Person
Male · 2 cross references
Arod is a son of Gad whose line is preserved in Genesis and Numbers. He belongs to the family structure through which Gad's tribal identity is carried forward. First appears in Gen 46:16.1
AI summary: Arod matters because the cross references preserve his name from the patriarchal family list into the wilderness census tradition. That repetition reflects the way Israel's tribes were remembered through stable ancestral heads whose names defined later family branches. Taken together, the material presents Arod as a Gadite forefather whose place helps sustain the continuity of the tribe.1
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.