Bible Person

Shepho

Meaning: desert · Male · 2 cross references

Shepho is a Horite descendant of Seir in the Edomite genealogies. He belongs to the pre-Israelite and neighboring family structures preserved in Genesis and Chronicles. First appears in Gen 36:23.1

AI summary: Shepho matters because his cross references place him among the descendants of Seir, helping map the peoples and clan structures occupying the region alongside Edom and later Israel. Though there is no separate narrative scene, the entry contributes to the wider human geography of Scripture. Taken together, the material presents Shepho as part of the Horite ancestral framework.1