Bible Person
Meaning: strong or powerful savior; stone of redemption · Male · 5 cross references
Pedahzur is remembered as the father of Gamaliel, the Manassite chief in the wilderness generation. His significance is carried through the recurring identification of his son in Israel's ordered camp life. First appears in Num 1:10.1
AI summary: Pedahzur matters because the cross references preserve him as the paternal marker behind Manasseh's tribal leadership in the wilderness. He is not a direct actor in the narrative, but his name is kept visible wherever Gamaliel represents the tribe. This is part of the Bible's habit of rooting public leadership in remembered households. Taken together, the material presents Pedahzur as the remembered father behind Manasseh's camp leadership.1
Central Figure
Pedahzur
Meaning: strong or powerful savior; stone of redemption
Rock of redemption, the father of Gamaliel and prince of Manasseh at the time of the Exodus (Num.
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.