Bible Person
Male · 2 cross references
Abida is a son of Midian and grandson of Abraham through Keturah, preserved in the genealogies of Genesis and Chronicles. He belongs to the wider Abrahamic family network beyond the covenant line of Isaac. First appears in Gen 25:4.1
AI summary: Abida matters because the cross references place him within the broader fruitfulness of Abraham's family, showing that Abraham became the ancestor of many peoples beyond Israel. His line contributes to the Bible's larger ethnographic map and to the historical setting of Arab and desert tribes related to Israel at a distance. Taken together, the material presents Abida as a Midianite forefather within the wider spread of Abraham's descendants.1
Central Figure
Abida
Or Abi’dah, father of knowledge; knowing, one of the five sons of Midian, who was the son of Abraham by Keturah (1 Chr.
Or Abi’dah, father of knowledge; knowing, one of the five sons of Midian, who was the son of Abraham by Keturah (1 Chr. 1:33), and apparently the chief of an Arab tribe. 3
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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.