Bible Person
Meaning: smelling sweet · Male · 2 cross references
Mibsam is one of Ishmael's sons and the ancestral name behind an Arabian tribe. He belongs to the wider Abrahamic family outside the covenant line of Isaac. First appears in Gen 25:13.1
AI summary: Mibsam matters because his cross references place him among the twelve sons of Ishmael, a structured list that preserves the breadth of Abraham's descendants beyond Israel. Even without a narrative episode, the entry helps map the tribal world that emerges from Abraham's wider household. Taken together, the material presents Mibsam as an Ishmaelite ancestor linked to Arabia's remembered peoples.1
Central Figure
Mibsam
Meaning: smelling sweet
One of Ishmael’s twelve sons, and head of an Arab tribe (Gen.
Siblings
One of Ishmael’s twelve sons, and head of an Arab tribe (Gen. 25:13). 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.