Bible Person
Meaning: the moon; month; smelling sweet · Male · 2 cross references
Jerah is one of the sons or descendants of Joktan in the table of nations. He belongs to the broad post-flood mapping of peoples beyond Israel's immediate story. First appears in Gen 10:26.1
AI summary: Jerah matters because the cross references place him within the carefully ordered genealogy of Joktan's descendants, extending Scripture's remembered geography of humanity into a wider world of peoples. Even without a narrative episode, his name supports the Bible's structured vision of the nations. Taken together, the material presents Jerah as a Joktanite ancestral figure contributing to the remembered ordering of the world.1
Central Figure
Jerah
Meaning: the moon; month; smelling sweet
Siblings
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.