person

Shuah

שׁוּחַ

Shuah was a son of Abraham and Keturah, and his descendants formed a tribe.

verses
2
first named
Genesis 25:2
last named
1 Chronicles 1:32
period
the Patriarchs
tribe
Early Patriarch

Description

Who was Shuah?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Shuah is mentioned in Gen.25.2 and 1Ch.1.32 as one of the sons of Abraham and his second wife, Keturah. After the death of Sarah, Abraham took Keturah as his wife, and she bore him six sons, including Shuah. These sons were sent away with gifts to the east, away from Abraham's son Isaac, to whom he gave his main inheritance. Shuah's descendants formed a tribe, although no further details about their history or location are provided in the biblical text. The mention of Shuah and his brothers demonstrates Abraham's fulfillment of God's promise to make him the father of many nations, even though the covenant was primarily established through his son Isaac.

Relations

Direct connections

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.

How the graph connects Shuah9 of 9 entities the graph connects to Shuah, in one group: kinship 9. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.AbrahamChild of · 1 event · 275 versesIsaacSibling of · 123 versesIshmaelSibling of · 27 versesKeturahChild of · 1 event · 4 versesMidianSibling of · 1 event · 4 versesJokshanSibling of · 1 event · 3 versesIshbakSibling of · 1 event · 2 versesMedanSibling of · 1 event · 2 versesZimranSibling of · 1 event · 2 versesShuah

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Where this happens

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.

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Where to read it

Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 2 books.

  1. Genesis1 verse

    25:2

  2. 1 Chronicles1 verse

    1:32

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