Bible Person
Meaning: fatness; ashes · Male · 4 cross references
Dishon is one of the Horite sons of Seir and the father of several clan descendants in the Seir genealogies. He should be distinguished from Dishan, another brother in the same Horite family network. First appears in Gen 36:21.1
AI summary: Dishon matters because the cross references preserve another distinct Horite branch within the genealogical landscape of Seir. His sons, siblings, and clan position help fill out the complex family map surrounding Edom. These details are not narrative highlights, but they give the Bible's world its regional precision. Taken together, the material presents Dishon as a Horite clan ancestor within the broader Seir-Edom genealogy.1
Central Figure
Dishon
Meaning: fatness; ashes
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.