Bible Person
Meaning: the soul; he that rests · Male · 2 cross references
Naphish is one of Ishmael's sons and the ancestral name behind an Arabian tribe. He belongs to the wider Abrahamic family outside the covenant line of Isaac. First appears in Gen 25:15.1
AI summary: Naphish matters because his cross references place him in the structured list of Ishmael's sons, preserving the breadth of Abraham's descendants beyond Israel. Even without a narrative episode, the name helps define the tribal landscape related to the patriarchal family. Taken together, the material presents Naphish as an Ishmaelite ancestor in the remembered world of Arabian peoples.1
Central Figure
Naphish
Meaning: the soul; he that rests
Siblings
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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.