Bible Person
Male · 2 cross references
Dodanim is the ancestral name of a people descended from Javan in the table of nations, with a variant form appearing in Chronicles. The page uses a person-style entry because the dataset stores ethnonyms in genealogical format. First appears in Gen 10:4.1
AI summary: Dodanim matters because the cross references place the name within the spread of maritime or western peoples descending from Javan. Like other ethnonym entries, it expands Genesis from family narrative into a structured vision of post-flood humanity and the nations beyond Israel. Taken together, the material presents Dodanim as an ethnonym contributing to Scripture's remembered ordering of peoples.1
Central Figure
Dodanim
Leaders, a race descended from Javan (Gen.
Leaders, a race descended from Javan (Gen. 10:4). They are known in profane history as the Dardani, originally inhabiting Illyricum. They were a semi-Pelasgic race, and in the ethnographical table (Gen. 10) they are grouped with the Chittim (q.v.). In 1 Chr. 1:7, they are called Rodanim. The LXX. and the Samaritan Version also read Rhodii, whence some have concluded that the Rhodians, the inhabitants of the island of Rhodes, are meant. 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.