Bible Person
Meaning: the people of the Almighty; the Almighty is with me · Male · 5 cross references
Ammishaddai is remembered as the father of Ahiezer, the Danite chief in the wilderness generation. His significance is carried through the repeated naming of his son in Israel's camp order and offerings. First appears in Num 1:12.1
AI summary: Ammishaddai matters because the cross references preserve him as the named ancestral marker behind Dan's tribal leadership in the wilderness. Though he is not a narrative actor, the repeated patronymic keeps him visible wherever Ahiezer represents the tribe before the Lord. This is one of the ways Scripture anchors leadership in remembered households. Taken together, the material presents Ammishaddai as the father whose name stands behind Dan's formal leadership in the camp.1
Central Figure
Ammishaddai
Meaning: the people of the Almighty; the Almighty is with me
People of the Almighty, the father of Ahiezer, who was chief of the Danites at the time of the Exodus (Num.
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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.