Bible Person
Meaning: a people that licks up · Male · 21 cross references
Amalek is the grandson of Esau and the ancestor associated with the Amalekites, one of Israel's most persistent enemies in the wilderness and early monarchy. His name stands at the point where a family line becomes a hostile people repeatedly remembered for violent opposition. First appears in Gen 36:12.1
AI summary: Amalek matters because the cross references connect his line with one of the Bible's most enduring memories of predatory hostility. Scripture first places him in Esau's genealogy, but later remembrance is dominated by the Amalekite attack on Israel after the exodus and the command that this aggression not be forgotten. That line of memory continues into Saul and David. Taken together, the material presents Amalek as a genealogical starting point whose significance lies in the long shadow cast by the people descended from him.1
Central Figure
Amalek
Meaning: a people that licks up
Dweller in a valley, the son of Eliphaz and grandson of Esau (Gen.
Dweller in a valley, the son of Eliphaz and grandson of Esau (Gen. 36:12; 1 Chr. 1:36); the chief of an Idumean tribe (Gen. 36:16). His mother was a Horite, a tribe whose territory the descendants of Esau had seized. 3
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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.