- verses
- 3
- first named
- Genesis 25:2
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 1:32
- period
- the Patriarchs
- tribe
- Early Patriarch
Description
Who was Jokshan?
Jokshan is mentioned in the Old Testament as one of the sons of Abraham and his wife Keturah. After the death of Sarah, Abraham took Keturah as his wife, and she bore him several children, including Jokshan (Gen.25.1-2; 1Ch.1.32).
The biblical record provides little information about Jokshan beyond his lineage. In Gen.25.3, it is stated that Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan, suggesting that he had descendants who formed tribes or clans. The names Sheba and Dedan are associated with regions in Arabia, indicating that Jokshan's descendants may have settled in that area.
Jokshan's mention in the genealogies of Abraham serves to highlight the fulfillment of God's promise to make Abraham the father of many nations (Gen.17.4-6). Although the covenant line would pass through Isaac and Israel (or 'Jacob'), Abraham's other sons, including Jokshan, are not forgotten in the biblical narrative.
The fact that Jokshan and his brothers are listed in both Genesis and 1 Chronicles underscores the importance of genealogical records in ancient Israelite society. These records served to establish family ties, document the fulfillment of divine promises, and trace the origins of various tribes and nations.
Beyond these details, the Bible does not provide any further information about Jokshan's life, his relationship with his father Abraham, or the specific history of his descendants. His inclusion in the biblical record serves primarily to paint a more complete picture of Abraham's family and the nations that descended from him.
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Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
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A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 2 books. The name is written 4 times in them.
Genesis2 verses
1 Chronicles1 verse
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Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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