Bible Person
Meaning: judgment; process · Male · 2 cross references
Medan is a son of Abraham by Keturah and part of the wider family line that grows from Abraham beyond Isaac and Ishmael. He belongs to the genealogical horizon that shows Abraham as father of multiple peoples. First appears in Gen 25:2.1
AI summary: Medan matters because his cross references place him in the often-overlooked branches of Abraham's household, expanding the reader's sense of how widely Abraham's family extends across the region. Though Medan is not narratively developed, the name contributes to the Bible's memory of related peoples beyond the covenant line. Taken together, the material presents Medan as one of the ancestral offshoots of Abraham's later family.1
Father
Abraham
Meaning: father of a great multitude
Mother
Keturah
Meaning: that makes the incense to fume
Central Figure
Medan
Meaning: judgment; process
A son of Jokshan, Abraham’s son by Keturah (1 Chr.
A son of Jokshan, Abraham’s son by Keturah (1 Chr. 1:32). His descendants settled on the Syrian borders about the territory of Edom. They probably led a pastoral life. 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.