Zimran
According to the Hebrew Bible, Zimran (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.; Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.,[1] Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.), also known as Zambran,[2] was the first son of Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites, and Keturah, whom he had married after the death of Sarah.[3][4] Zimran had five other brothers, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.[5]
Josephus writes that "Abraham contrived to settle them in colonies; and they took possession of Troglodytis,[lower-alpha 1] and the country of Arabia Felix, as far as it reaches to the Red Sea."[6] For such reasons, Zimran has also been tentatively identified by some with the Arabian town of Zabran, i.e. Jeddah,[7] between Mecca and Medina.[8]
The biblical accounts in Genesis and I Chronicles do not mention Zimran's descendants, but according to the Book of Jasher, his children were Abihen, Molich and Narim.[9]
Academics such as Jan Retsö and William Hazlitt have suggested that the descendants of Zimran are the same people known as Banizomenes, who were mentioned in the records of the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus.[10][11]
Notes
- ↑ In this case the word is applied to the cave dwelling peoples of the Rift Valley
References
- ↑ "Strong's Hebrew: 2175. זִמְרָן (Zimran) -- a son of Abraham".
- ↑ Josephus, Flavius, Antiquities, 1.15.1
- ↑ Genesis 25:1-2
- ↑ 1 Chronicles 1:32
- ↑ Genesis 25:2
- ↑ Flavius Josephus, Antiquities, 1.15.1
- ↑ The Edinburgh review: or critical journal, Volume 50, Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, Macvey Napier, Henry Reeve, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, William Empson, Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot (Hon.) and Harold Cox, A. Constable, 1830, p. 165
- ↑ Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume 1, Review and Herald Publishing Association (Washington, D.C., USA), 1953, p.367
- ↑ Book of Jasher 25:2
- ↑ Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads, Page 298
- ↑ The Classical Gazetteer by William Hazlitt (1851), Page 67
External links
- Easton's Bible Dictionary: Zimran
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