Bible Person
Meaning: according to judgment · Male · 1 cross reference
This Bedan entry refers to the figure named by Samuel among the deliverers of Israel, though the exact identification is uncertain. He belongs to the remembered history of God's rescue through raised-up leaders. First appears in 1 Sam 12:11.1
AI summary: This Bedan matters because his single cross reference appears in Samuel's summary of the judges through whom God saved Israel. The ambiguity of the name does not lessen the point of the passage: the Lord repeatedly raised deliverers when his people cried out. Taken together, the material presents Bedan as a remembered deliverer-name within Israel's rescue tradition.1
Central Figure
Bedan
Meaning: according to judgment
One of the judges of Israel (1 Sam.
One of the judges of Israel (1 Sam. 12:11). It is uncertain who he was. Some suppose that Barak is meant, others Samson, but most probably this is a contracted form of Abdon (Judg. 12:13). 3
| Book | Cross-References |
|---|---|
| 1Sam |
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.