Bible Person
Meaning: one that speaks of secrets · Male · 2 cross references
Amraphel is the king of Shinar named among the coalition rulers in Genesis 14. He belongs to the early international world in which Abraham's family is already caught up in conflicts reaching beyond Canaan alone. First appears in Gen 14:1.1
AI summary: Amraphel matters because the cross references place him inside the first major war narrative of the Bible, where imperial-scale conflict spills into the land and entangles Lot. His presence helps widen the scope of Abraham's story from family migration to geopolitical confrontation. Taken together, the material presents Amraphel as a regional king whose coalition contributes to the setting for Abram's first recorded military rescue.1
Central Figure
Amraphel
Meaning: one that speaks of secrets
King of Shinar, southern Chaldea, one of the confederates of Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, in a war against Sodom and cities of the plain (Gen.
King of Shinar, southern Chaldea, one of the confederates of Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, in a war against Sodom and cities of the plain (Gen. 14:1, 4). It is now found that Amraphel (or Ammirapaltu) is the Khammu-rabi whose name appears on recently-discovered monuments. (See CHEDORLAOMER). After defeating Arioch (q.v.) he united Babylonia under one rule, and made Babylon his capital. 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.