Bible Person
Meaning: an assembly · Female · 6 cross references
Adah is one of Esau's wives and the mother of Eliphaz in the Edomite family line. She should be read within the genealogy of Esau's house rather than confused with the earlier Adah from Genesis 4. First appears in Gen 26:34.1
AI summary: Adah matters because the cross references place her within the family network from which Edom's clans and chiefs develop. Through Eliphaz, her line becomes one of the strongest branches in Esau's descendants, giving her a lasting place in the genealogy of a neighboring nation. The naming variations across Genesis also show the complexity of preserving family memory in these ancestral lists. Taken together, the material presents this Adah as an important matriarch within the formation of Edom.1
Central Figure
Adah
Meaning: an assembly
The first of Esau’s three wives, the daughter of Elon the Hittite (Gen.
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.