The "travelling companies" of Dedan are mentioned by Isaiah They are also named with the merchants of Tarshish by Ezekiel , and were celebrated on account of their trade with the Phoenicians. A son of Raamah Genesis His descendants are mentioned in Isaiah , and Ezek.
They probably settled among the sons of Cush, on the north-west coast of the Persian Gulf. A son of Jokshan, Abraham's son by Keturah 1 Chronicles His descendants settled on the Syrian borders about the territory of Edom. They probably led a pastoral life. Evidently, they were, like the related Sheba Sabaeans , of mixed race compare Genesis , In Isaiah allusion is made to the "caravans of Dedanites" in the wilds of Arabia, and Ezekiel mentions them as supplying Tyre with precious things Ezekiel ; in verse 15, "Dedan" should probably be read as in Septuagint, "Rodan," i.
The name seems still to linger in the island of Dadan, on the border of the Persian Gulf. It is found also in Min. James Orr Strong's Hebrew Dedan -- a descendant of Ham, also a descendant of Abraham Dedan or Dedaneh.
Dedani -- desc. Word Origin pl. Leummim -- descendant of Dedan Ishbak and Shuah. And Jokshan begat Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim. And the sons The men of Dedan were thy traffickers: many isles were the mart of thine hand: they brought thee in exchange horns of ivory and ebony. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. These must all be Ethiopian tribes.
But the same chapter also assigns to Sheba a different origin. It couples him with Dedan , and sees in him a descendant of Ham, a kinsman of Egypt and Canaan. If Darom be the right reading, it is, apparently, the same as Dedan Ezekiel , etc. The Works of John Bunyan Volumes Standard Bible Encyclopedia. James Orr. Multi-Version Concordance Dedan 10 Occurrences. See below. The usual opinion respecting this and the preceding founder of tribes is that the first settled among the sons of Cush, probably on the borders of the Persian Gulf; the second on the Syrian borders, about the territory of Edom Michaelis, Spicileg.
But Vater Comment. The theory of this mixed descent gains weight from the fact that in each case the brother of Dedan is named Sheba. It may be supposed that the Dedanites were among the chief traders traversing the caravan-route from the head of the Persian Gulf to the south of Palestine, bearing merchandise of India, and possibly of Southern Arabia, and hence the mixture of such a tribe with another of different and Keturahite descent presents no impossibility.
The passages in the Bible in which Dedan is mentioned besides the genealogies above referred to are contained in the prophecies of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and are in every case obscure.
The Edomitish settlers seem to be referred to in Jer , where Dedan is mentioned in the prophecy against Edom; again in , with Tema and Buz; in Eze , with Teman, in the prophecy against Edom; and in Isa "The burden upon Arabia. This last passage is by some understood to refer to caravans of the Cushite Dedan; and although it may only signify the wandering propensities of a nomad tribe; such as the Edomitish portion of Dedan may have been, the supposition that it means merchant-caravans is strengthened by the remarkable words of Ezekiel in the lamentation for Tyre.
This chapter 27 twice mentions Dedan; first in ver. The whole of the passage is as follows: "Dedan [was] thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots. Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these [were they] thy merchants.
The merchants of Sheba and Raamah they [were] thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
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