Almodad

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Almodad, was a descendant of Noah and the first named son of Joktan in Genesis 10:26 and 1 Chronicles 1:20. While the Bible has no further history regarding Almodad, this patriarch is considered to be the founder of an Arabian tribe in "Arabia Felix".[1] This is based on the identification of Joktan's other sons, such as Sheba and Havilah, who are both identified as coming from that region.[2]

According to Easton's Bible Dictionary "Almodad" means "immeasurable", however it has also been translated as "not measured",[3] "measurer",[4] "measure of God",[5] "the beloved," or, "God is beloved",[6] "God is love",[7] and "God is a friend".[8][9]

Many translations and scholarly works use "Elmodad", including Josephus,[10] Douay Rheims Bible[11] and the Targum Ps.-Jonathan, which elaborates Gen 10:26 and says "begot Elmodad, who measured the earth with cords."[12][13][14]

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[edit] Further reading

  • Alfred Jones (1990). "Almodad". Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names. Kregel Publications. ISBN 0825429617. 
  • John Relly Beard (1850). "Almodad". The People's Dictionary of the Bible. Simpkin, Marshall. p.45. OCLC 8293675. 

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Wikisource has original 1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary text related to:
  1. ^ Charles Forster (1844). "Section II: Settlements of Joktan", The Historical Geography of Arabia (Volume I), pp.77-175. “The family of this patriarch seems to have been correctly traced by Bochart, in the Almodaei, or Allumaeotae, a central people of Arabia Felix, noticed by Ptolemy; and whose geographical position can be pretty exactly ascertained, both by the statement of the Alexandrine geographer, and by the nature of the adjoining country.” 
  2. ^ Skinner, D.D., John, A Critical and Exegitical Commentary on Genesis, T&T Clark Ltd., 1910 (1980 ed.), p. 221. ISBN 0567050017.
  3. ^ Hebrew word #486 in Strong's
  4. ^ Rene Noorbergen (2001). Secrets of the Lost Races: New Discoveries of Advanced Technology in Ancient Civilizations. TEACH Services, Inc.. ISBN 1572581980. 
  5. ^ Roswell Dwight Hitchcock, Nathaniel West, Alexander Cruden (1870). Hitchcock's New and Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible. A.J. Johnson. ISBN 0837017424. 
  6. ^ "Almodad". International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. (1915). 
  7. ^ Thomas Inman (2002). "Almodad". Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names Part 1. Kessinger Publishing. p.231. ISBN 0766126684. 
  8. ^ Alfred J. Kolatch (2005). "Almodad". The Comprehensive Dictionary of English & Hebrew First Names. Jonathan David Company. p39. ISBN 0824604555. 
  9. ^ David K. Stabnow (2006). "Almodad". HCSB Super Giant Print Dictionary and Concordance. Broadman & Holman. p.47. ISBN 0805494898. 
  10. ^ Josephus. "Book I", Antiquities of the Jews. 
  11. ^ "The First Book of the Chronicles", Parallel Hebrew Old Testament
  12. ^ "Section II. Toledoth", Targum Ps.-Jonathan. 
  13. ^ "Almo'dad". The Bible Dictionary. (1875). p.51. OCLC 26196495. 
  14. ^ Alexander Toepel, University of Tübingen (2006). "Yonton Revisited: A Case Study in the Reception of Hellenistic Science within Early Judaism". Harvard Theological Review 99: pp.235–245. Cambridge University Press doi = 10.1017/S0017816006001234. 
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