Bible Person
Meaning: which glides away · Male · 1 cross reference
Jabal is a descendant of Cain and is remembered as the father of those who dwell in tents and keep livestock. He belongs to the early Genesis portrait of human cultural development east of Eden. First appears in Gen 4:20.1
AI summary: Jabal matters because his single cross reference links a particular household line with a major stage of human social and economic development. The entry shows how Genesis traces the rise of pastoral culture within a world already marked by estrangement from God. Taken together, the material presents Jabal as an ancestral culture-founder in the line of Cain.1
Central Figure
Jabal
Meaning: which glides away
A stream, a descendant of Cain, and brother of Jubal; “the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle” (Gen.
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
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.