Bible Person
Male · 2 cross references
Hemdan is a Horite descendant in the family of Dishon, preserved in the Seir genealogies. He belongs to the ancestral world surrounding Edom and its earlier populations. First appears in Gen 36:26.1
AI summary: Hemdan matters because the cross references place him among the named descendants of Seir, contributing to the biblical record of neighboring peoples and their internal lines. Even a brief genealogical entry like this helps give regional and historical texture to the wider biblical world. Taken together, the material presents Hemdan as a Horite family figure whose place contributes to the remembered background of Edom.1
Central Figure
Hemdan
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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.