Bible Person
Meaning: the light or vision of God · Male · 2 cross references
Areli is a son of Gad whose line is preserved in the patriarchal and census traditions. He belongs to the ancestral structure through which the tribe of Gad is remembered. First appears in Gen 46:16.1
AI summary: Areli matters because the cross references keep his name in the transition from Jacob's household to the counted tribal families of Israel. Such continuity shows how tribal identity was sustained through named ancestral branches over time. Taken together, the material presents Areli as a Gadite forefather whose line helps define the inner structure of the tribe.1
Central Figure
Areli
Meaning: the light or vision of God
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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.