Bible Person

Cheran

Meaning: anger · Male · 2 cross references

Cheran is a Horite descendant in the family of Dishon, preserved in the Seir genealogies. He belongs to the ancestral world that fills out Edom's pre-Israelite background. First appears in Gen 36:26.1

AI summary: Cheran matters because the cross references place him within the preserved family lines of Seir. Such entries give the biblical world regional and ancestral texture by naming the peoples surrounding Israel with the same genealogical seriousness used for Israel's own tribes. Taken together, the material presents Cheran as a Horite family figure contributing to the remembered background of Edom.1