Bible Person
Meaning: who is drawn by force · Male · 2 cross references
Mash is listed among the sons of Aram in the table of nations and stands behind a people remembered in the wider Aramean world. The page preserves the name in personal form because Genesis expresses national origins through family descent. First appears in Gen 10:23.1
AI summary: Mash matters because his cross references place an Aramean branch within Scripture's foundational ordering of the nations. The entry helps extend the biblical map eastward and northward, showing that Genesis is concerned not only with Israel's line but with the wider spread of related peoples. Taken together, the material presents Mash as an ancestral marker in the remembered origins of the Aramean sphere.1
Central Figure
Mash
Meaning: who is drawn by force
(= Meshech 1 Chr.
(= Meshech 1 Chr. 1:17), one of the four sons of Aram, and the name of a tribe descended from him (Gen. 10:23) inhabiting some part probably of Mesopotamia. Some have supposed that they were the inhabitants of Mount Masius, the present Karja Baghlar, which forms part of the chain of Taurus. 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.