Bible Person
Meaning: field of light; light of the Almighty · Male · 5 cross references
Shedeur is remembered as the father of Elizur, the Reubenite chief in the wilderness generation. His own role is indirect, but his name persists through the repeated identification of his son in Israel's camp records. First appears in Num 1:5.1
AI summary: Shedeur matters because the cross references preserve him as the paternal marker behind Reuben's tribal representation at Sinai. Though he does not act in the narrative, his name accompanies Elizur wherever the tribe appears in census, offering, and marching-order contexts. This grounds public leadership in remembered family identity. Taken together, the material presents Shedeur as the remembered father behind Reuben's wilderness leadership.1
Central Figure
Shedeur
Meaning: field of light; light of the Almighty
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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.