Bible Person
Meaning: ditch; swimming; humiliation · Male · 2 cross references
Shuah is one of Abraham's sons by Keturah and part of the wider family line that extends from Abraham beyond Isaac and Ishmael. He belongs to the non-Israelite branches of Abraham's remembered descendants. First appears in Gen 25:2.1
AI summary: Shuah matters because his cross references place him within Abraham's later family through Keturah, broadening the reader's view of how widely Abraham's household spreads in biblical memory. Even without a narrative scene, the entry contributes to Scripture's map of related peoples beyond the covenant line. Taken together, the material presents Shuah as an Abrahamic offshoot in the wider genealogy of nations and tribes.1
Father
Abraham
Meaning: father of a great multitude
Mother
Keturah
Meaning: that makes the incense to fume
Central Figure
Shuah
Meaning: ditch; swimming; humiliation
One of Abraham’s sons by Keturah (Gen.
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.