Bible Person

Shuni

Meaning: changed; sleeping · Male · 2 cross references

Shuni is a son of Gad in the patriarchal and wilderness genealogies. He belongs to the early ancestral framework from which Gad's tribal identity is remembered. First appears in Gen 46:16.1

AI summary: Shuni matters because his cross references place him in both Jacob's household list and the later tribal reckoning in the wilderness, showing continuity between family origin and national formation. Even without a narrative episode, the entry helps preserve the line from which a Gadite clan emerges. Taken together, the material presents Shuni as an ancestral figure in the continuity of Gad's tribe.1