Medan
MEDAN
A son of Abraham and Keturah, Gen 25:2 . He is supposed to have settled in Arabia, near Midian his brother.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Medan
(Hebrews Medan’, , contention, as in Pro 6:14; Pro 6:19; Sept. v. r. in Chron. ; Vulg. Madan), the third son of Abraham by Keturah (Gen 25:2). BC. post 2024. He and his brother Midian are believed to have peopled the country of Midian, east of the Dead Sea. It has been supposed, from the similarity of the name, that the tribe descended from Medan was more closely allied to Midian than by mere blood-relation, and that it was the same as, or a portion of the latter. There is, however, no ground for this theory beyond its plausibility. The traditional city Medyen of the Arab geographers (the classical Modiana), situate in Arabia on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Eyleh, must be held to have been Midianitish, not Medanitish (but Bunsen, Bibelwerk, suggests the latter identification). It has been elsewhere remarked, SEE KETURAH, that many of the Keturahite tribes seem to have merged in early times into the Ishmaelite tribes. The mention of Ishmaelite’ as a convertible term with Midianite,’ in Gen 37:28; Gen 37:36, is. remarkable; but the Midianite of the AV. in Gen 37:28 is Medanite in the Hebrew (by the Sept. rendered , and in the Vulg. Isimaelitae and: Madianitae), and we may have here a trace of the subject of this article, though Midianite appears on the whole to be more likely the correct reading in the passages referred to. SEE MIDIAN. .
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Medan
contention, the third son of Abraham by Keturah (Gen. 25:2).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Medan
(“strife”.) Gen 25:2. Son of Abraham and Keturah. Identified with Midian in Gen 37:28; Gen 37:36. The Keturahites early merged into the Ishmaelite tribes.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Medan
MEDAN.One of the sons of Abraham and Keturah (Gen 25:2 = 1Ch 1:32). The existence of such a tribe, however, is very doubtful. In Gen 37:36 Medanites is miswritten for Midianites (see RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ), and there is every likelihood that in the former passage Medan is a doublet of Midian, the next word in the verse. Medan is unknown elsewhere in the Bible, nor is it represented by the name of any people in any extra-Biblical document. To connect it with the name of an Arabian god Madn, or with the similar name of a wady in N.W. Arabia, is very hazardous, both because the associations are remote, and because the word-form is common in Semitic, and is liable to occur in various relations.
J. F. MCurdy.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Medan
The third son of Abraham by Keturah, Gen 25:2. There is a place also called by this name and some have thought, that it is the same as is called in our Lord’s time Magdala. Some suppose that the name means judgment; and others render it, the waters of Dan
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Medan
medan (, medhan, strife): One of the sons of Abraham by Keturah (Gen 25:2; 1Ch 1:32). The tribe and its place remain unidentified, and the conjecture that the name may be connected with the Midianites is unlikely from the fact that in the list of the sons of Abraham and Keturah Midian is mentioned alongside of Medan.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Medan
Medan or Madan, son of Abraham, by Keturah (Gen 25:2). He and his brother Midian are supposed to have peopled the country of Midian, east of the Dead Sea.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Medan
[Medan’]
Son of Abraham and Keturah. Gen 25:2; 1Ch 1:32. His descendants have not been traced.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Medan
H4091
Son of Abraham and Keturah.
Gen 25:2; 1Ch 1:32
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Medan
Me’dan. (contention). A son of Abraham and Keturah. Gen 23:5; 1Ch 1:42.