inconvenience of old age
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
OBAL (Gen_10:28).See Ebal, No. 1.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Joktan's son (Gen_10:28). EBAL in 1Ch_1:22. Bochart conjectures that the troglodyte Aralitae of eastern Africa represent Obal.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
O'bal. (stripped bare). Son of Joktan, and, like the rest of family, apparently the founder of an Arab tribe. Gen_10:28. In 1Ch_1:22, the name is written, Ebal.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ō?bal. See EBAL.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Obal
(Heb. Obal', עובָל, a bare district; Sept. Εὐάλ v. r. Γέβαλ; Vulg. Ebal), son of Joktan, B.C. post 2060, and head of an Arabian tribe, mentioned in Gen_10:28, and of the region wherein it dwelt, 1Ch_1:22 (where it is called EBAL, q.v.). Bochart (Phal. 2:23) understands the Avalites, a people on the Ethiopian coast, near the Strait of Bab el- Mandeb (Ptolemy, 4:87), who gave name to the Sinus Abalites (Pliny, 6:34). They were a commercial people-(Forster, Geogr. of Arabia, 1:148). Others make Obal the same with the Gobolitis of Josephus (Γοβολῖτις, Ant. 2:1, 2; 3:2, 1; see Schulthess, Parad. p. 84), but here there is not even a resemblance (גְּבָל and עֹבָל). SEE ARABIA.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.