Bible Person
Meaning: filiation of God · Male · 9 cross references
Bethuel is the son of Nahor and Milcah and the father of Rebekah and Laban, placing him at a key junction in the extended family of Abraham. Through him the patriarchal line reconnects with its Mesopotamian kin. First appears in Gen 22:22.1
AI summary: Bethuel matters because the cross references present him as the father through whom Isaac's marriage and Jacob's later family story become possible. Rebekah's departure from Bethuel's household joins Abraham's line to the Nahor branch, and Laban's prominence later keeps that same family connection alive and difficult. Bethuel himself is not a dominant actor, but his household is one of Genesis' most consequential kinship nodes. Taken together, the material presents Bethuel as a structurally important family elder in the patriarchal narratives.1
Central Figure
Bethuel
Meaning: filiation of God
Siblings
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
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.