Bible Person
Meaning: his rising up; his highness · Male · 2 cross references
Alvah is an Edomite chief-name preserved in the late lists of Esau's descendants. It belongs to the remembered leadership structure of Edom. First appears in Gen 36:40.1
AI summary: Alvah matters because the cross references keep the name within the succession of Edomite chiefs. Such entries help show how the descendants of Esau are represented not just as a family line but as a politically ordered people. Taken together, the material presents Alvah as an Edomite chief-name contributing to the recorded structure of Edom's leadership.1
Central Figure
Alvah
Meaning: his rising up; his highness
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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.