Bible Person
Meaning: a young man; a virgin; a secret · Male · 2 cross references
Elam is a son of Shem in the table of nations and the ancestral name behind a major people of the ancient Near East. The page treats him in person-style form because the dataset stores ethnonyms and ancestral names together. First appears in Gen 10:22.1
AI summary: Elam matters because the cross references place the name at the head of one of the significant branches descending from Shem. The entry links primeval genealogy with the later historical world in which Elam appears as a real regional power. Taken together, the material presents Elam as an ancestral ethnonym whose place bridges the table of nations and the geopolitical background of Scripture.1
Central Figure
Elam
Meaning: a young man; a virgin; a secret
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.