Bible Person
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
Central Figure
Shuni
Meaning: changed; sleeping
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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.