Bible Person
Meaning: song; singer; vine · Male · 2 cross references
Zimran is one of Abraham's sons by Keturah and part of the wider family line that extends from Abraham beyond Isaac and Ishmael. He belongs to the non-Israelite branches of Abraham's remembered descendants. First appears in Gen 25:2.1
AI summary: Zimran matters because his cross references place him within Abraham's later family through Keturah, widening the reader's sense of how extensively Abraham's household spreads across the ancient world. Even without a narrative episode, the entry contributes to Scripture's broader family geography. Taken together, the material presents Zimran as an Abrahamic offshoot in the wider genealogy of peoples.1
Father
Abraham
Meaning: father of a great multitude
Mother
Keturah
Meaning: that makes the incense to fume
Central Figure
Zimran
Meaning: song; singer; vine
Vine-dressers; celebrated, one of the sons of Abraham by Keturah (Gen.
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.