Bible Person
Meaning: that suffers pain; that brings forth · Male · 2 cross references
This Havilah entry refers to the Joktanite descendant in the table of nations, not to the Cushite Havilah or to the land-name elsewhere in Genesis. He belongs to the broad post-flood mapping of peoples beyond Israel's immediate line. First appears in Gen 10:29.1
AI summary: This Havilah matters because the cross references place him within Joktan's descendants, contributing to Scripture's large-scale ordering of nations and regions. Even without a narrative episode, his name helps extend the biblical geography of peoples in a structured way. Taken together, the material presents this Havilah as a Joktanite ancestral figure whose place supports the remembered spread of nations.1
Central Figure
Havilah
Meaning: that suffers pain; that brings forth
A son of Joktan (Gen.
Siblings
A son of Joktan (Gen. 10:29; 1 Chr. 1:23). 3
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.