Biblical Figure
Zimran (Hebrew: זִמְרָן, Zimrān, 'vine dresser', 'celebrated', 'song'; Greek: Ζεμραμ, Ζεμβραν,[1] Arabic: زمران), also known as Zambran,[2] was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the first son of the marriage of Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites, to Keturah, whom he wed after the death of Sarah.[3][4] Zimran had five other brothers, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.[5]
Josephus writes that "Abraham contrived to settle them in colonies; and they took possession of Troglodytis[6] and the country of Arabia Felix, as far as it reaches to the Red Sea."[7] For such reasons, Zimran has also been tentatively identified by some with the Arabian town of Zabran, between Mecca and Medina[8] (i.e. Jeddah[9]).
According to the Book of Jasher, the children of Zimran were Abihen, Molich and Narim.[10]
Academics such as Jan Retsö and William Hazlitt (registrar) have suggested that the descendants of Zimran are the same people known as Banizomenes, which were mentioned in the records of the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus.[11][12]
References
- ^ "Strong's Hebrew: 2175. זִמְרָן (Zimran) -- a son of Abraham".
- ^ Josephus, Flavius, Antiquities, 1.15.1
- ^ Genesis 25:2–6
- ^ 1Chronicles 1:32
- ^ Genesis 25:1–6
- ^ In this case the word is applied to the cave dwelling peoples of the Rift Valley
- ^ Josephus, Flavius, Antiquities, 1.15.1
- ^ Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume 1, Review and Herald Publishing Association (Washington, D.C., USA), 1953, p.367
- ^ The Edinburgh review: or critical journal, Volume 50, Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, Macvey Napier, Henry Reeve, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, William Empson, Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot (Hon.) and Harold Cox, A. Constable, 1830, p. 165
- ^ Book of Jasher 25:2
- ^ Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads, Page 298
- ^ The Classical Gazetteer by William Hazlitt (1851), Page: 67
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