Medan

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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


MEDAN.—One of the sons of Abraham and Keturah (Gen_25:2 = 1Ch_1:32). The existence of such a tribe, however, is very doubtful. In Gen_37:36 ‘Medanites’ is miswritten for Midianites (see RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ), and there is every likelihood that in the former passage ‘Medan’ is a doublet of ‘Midian,’ the next word in the verse. Medan is unknown elsewhere in the Bible, nor is it represented by the name of any people in any extra-Biblical document. To connect it with the name of an Arabian god Madân, or with the similar name of a wady in N.W. Arabia, is very hazardous, both because the associations are remote, and because the word-form is common in Semitic, and is liable to occur in various relations.
J. F. M‘Curdy.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


("strife".) Gen_25:2. Son of Abraham and Keturah. Identified with Midian in Gen_37:28; Gen_37:36. The Keturahites early merged into the Ishmaelite tribes.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Me'dan. (contention). A son of Abraham and Keturah. Gen_23:5; 1Ch_1:42.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


mē?dan (מדן, medhān, ?strife?): One of the sons of Abraham by Keturah (Gen_25:2; 1Ch_1:32). The tribe and its place remain unidentified, and the conjecture that the name may be connected with the Midianites is unlikely from the fact that in the list of the sons of Abraham and Keturah Midian is mentioned alongside of Medan.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Me?dan or Madan, son of Abraham, by Keturah (Gen_25:2). He and his brother Midian are supposed to have peopled the country of Midian, east of the Dead Sea.




The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Medan
(Hebrews Medan', מְדָן, contention, as in Pro_6:14; Pro_6:19; Sept. Μαδάν v. r. in Chron. Μαδιάμ; Vulg. Madan), the third son of Abraham by Keturah (Gen_25:2). BC. post 2024. He and his brother Midian are believed to have peopled the country of Midian, east of the Dead Sea. “It has been supposed, from the similarity of the name, that the tribe descended from Medan was more closely allied to Midian than by mere blood-relation, and that it was the same as, or a portion of the latter. There is, however, no ground for this theory beyond its plausibility. The traditional city Medyen of the Arab geographers (the classical Modiana), situate in Arabia on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Eyleh, must be held to have been Midianitish, not Medanitish (but Bunsen, Bibelwerk, suggests the latter identification). It has been elsewhere remarked, SEE KETURAH, that many of the Keturahite tribes seem to have merged in early times into the Ishmaelite tribes. The mention of ‘Ishmaelite' as a convertible term with ‘Midianite,' in Gen_37:28; Gen_37:36, is. remarkable; but the Midianite of the AV. in Gen_37:28 is Medanite in the Hebrew (by the Sept. rendered Μαδιηναῖοι, and in the Vulg. Isimaelitae and: Madianitae), and we may have here a trace of the subject of this article, though Midianite appears on the whole to be more likely the correct reading in the passages referred to. SEE MIDIAN. .

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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