Bible Person
Meaning: that makes the incense to fume · Female · 4 cross references
Keturah is Abraham's later wife or concubine and the mother of six sons who extend Abraham's family beyond Isaac and Ishmael. Her children become part of the Bible's wider map of related peoples to the east and south. First appears in Gen 25:1.1
AI summary: Keturah matters because the cross references present her as the mother of a significant branch of Abraham's descendants after Sarah's death. Through Midian and her other sons, she enlarges the family world surrounding Israel and helps explain important neighboring peoples. Her role shows that Abraham's story radiates outward beyond the covenant line itself. Taken together, the material presents Keturah as an important matriarch whose children broaden the ancestral reach of Abraham's house.1
Central Figure
Keturah
Meaning: that makes the incense to fume
Incense, the wife of Abraham, whom he married probably after Sarah’s death (Gen.
Incense, the wife of Abraham, whom he married probably after Sarah’s death (Gen. 25:1-6), by whom he had six sons, whom he sent away into the east country. Her nationality is unknown. She is styled “Abraham’s concubine” (1 Chr. 1:32). Through the offshoots of the Keturah line Abraham became the “father of many nations.” 3
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.