Bible Person
Meaning: ancient heaps · Male · 2 cross references
This Ebal entry refers to the Horite descendant in the Seir genealogies, not to the Joktanite Ebal or to the mountain. He belongs to the ancestral landscape surrounding Edom. First appears in Gen 36:23.1
AI summary: This Ebal matters because the cross references place him within the named family lines of Seir's descendants. Such entries help give the Bible's neighboring peoples historical shape and genealogical depth. Taken together, the material presents this Ebal as a Horite family figure whose place contributes to the remembered background of Edom.1
Central Figure
Ebal
Meaning: ancient heaps
A descendant of Seir the Horite (Gen.
A descendant of Seir the Horite (Gen. 36:23). 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.