Bible Person

Elam

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