Bible Person

Ajah

Male · 2 cross references

Ajah is a Horite figure in the Seir genealogies, preserved as part of the early family landscape of Edom. He belongs to the non-Israelite ancestral setting that fills out the world around Esau's descendants. First appears in Gen 36:24.1

AI summary: Ajah matters because the cross references place the name within the layered genealogies of Seir and Edom, showing how the biblical record remembers the peoples connected to Israel's neighbors. Even small entries like this contribute to the geographic and family texture of the wider narrative world. Taken together, the material presents Ajah as a Horite ancestral figure whose place helps populate the genealogical background of Edom.1