Bible Person
Meaning: the earth; the world; confusion · Male · 8 cross references
Tubal is a son of Japheth whose name later appears in prophetic descriptions of distant trading and martial peoples. Like Meshech, his significance lies in the peoples and symbolism attached to his line. First appears in Gen 10:2.1
AI summary: Tubal matters because the cross references move his name from early genealogy into prophetic geography. Ezekiel especially uses Tubal as part of the language of distant nations, commerce, and threatening coalitions, while Isaiah places the name on the far horizon of the nations. This gives Tubal a long symbolic life beyond Genesis. Taken together, the material presents Tubal as a Japhethite ancestor whose descendants help fill out the Bible's map of the remote world.1
Central Figure
Tubal
Meaning: the earth; the world; confusion
The fifth son of Japheth (Gen.
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
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.