Bible Person
Meaning: who draws out · Male · 2 cross references
Sheleph is one of Joktan's sons in the table of nations. The page uses a person-style entry for an ancestral name that contributes to Genesis' ordered map of peoples and descent. First appears in Gen 10:26.1
AI summary: Sheleph matters because his cross references place him within the Joktanite branch of Genesis' account of the nations, extending the biblical horizon across Arabia and the wider ancient world. Even without a narrative scene, the name helps structure Scripture's memory of the human family after the flood. Taken together, the material presents Sheleph as an ancestral marker in the genealogy of the nations.1
Central Figure
Sheleph
Meaning: who draws out
Siblings
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.