Bible Person
Male · 2 cross references
Alvan is a Horite descendant in the Seir genealogies, preserved in the parallel records of Genesis and Chronicles. He belongs to the ancestral world that frames Edom's earliest population. First appears in Gen 36:23.1
AI summary: Alvan matters because the cross references place him within the family lists that populate the broader landscape around Esau's descendants. These small genealogical notices deepen the historical and regional setting of the biblical world by naming neighboring lines with care. Taken together, the material presents Alvan as a Horite family figure whose place contributes to the remembered ancestry of Seir.1
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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.