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Dedan has several different meanings in the Hebrew Bible. Dedan (now part of Al-'Ula, Saudi Arabia) was an oasis and city-state of north-western Arabia. The people of Dedan are called Dedanim or Dedanites. Dedan is also the name of the son of Raamah and the son of Jokshan.
Dedan, an ancient Arabian city-state located in the oasis of al-ʿUla; for the kingdom in its later phase, see Lihyan; for the city in the Bible, see Dedan (Bible) Dedan State, a former princely state in Gujarat, western India; Dedan Kimathi, a leader of the Kenyan Mau Mau revolt; Dedan, a major antagonist of the independent video game Off
Lihyan (Arabic: لحيان, Liḥyān; Greek: Lechienoi), [1] also called Dadān or Dedan, was a powerful and highly organized ancient Arab kingdom that played a vital cultural and economic role in the north-western region of the Arabian Peninsula and used Dadanitic language. [2]
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. Dedan had three sons, named Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. [6] In his "History of the Prophets and Kings", Tabari says that the wife of the North Arabian ancestor Adnan, Mahdad bint Laham, was a descendant of Jokshan (Yaqshan).
Teman (Hebrew: תימן), was the name of an Edomite clan and of its eponym, according to the Hebrew Bible, [1] and an ancient biblical town of Arabia Petraea. [dubious – discuss] The term is also traditionally used in Biblical Hebrew as the synonym of the direction south and was applied to being used as the Hebrew name of Yemen (whose Arabic name is "Yaman") due to its location in the ...
In the Hebrew Bible Dedan, a cognate of Didanu, appears as an ordinary given name in Numbers 16:1, Deuteronomy 11:6 and Psalm 106:17. [ 9 ] It has been suggested that the name of the ancient city Dadan or Dadan, located in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula in the oasis Al-'Ula and attested in an inscription of Nabonidus ( uru Da-da-nu ...
Dedan, son of Raamah Sabtechah , son of Cush Nimrod : in verses 10–12 he is the founder of a list of Mesopotamian cities, and the biblical tradition elsewhere identifies him with northern Mesopotamia or Assyria. [ 20 ]