- verses
- 2
- first named
- Genesis 10:26
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 1:20
- period
- the Patriarchs
- tribe
- Early Patriarch
Description
Who was Almodad?
Almodad is mentioned in the genealogies of the nations, which are recorded in the book of Genesis and later in the book of 1 Chronicles. He is listed as one of the sons of Joktan, who was a descendant of Shem, the son of Noah. (Gen.10.26; 1Ch.1.20)
The genealogy in Genesis 10, often referred to as the "Table of Nations," traces the descendants of Noah's three sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their dispersal across the earth after the flood. It provides a framework for understanding the origins and relationships of various nations and people groups.
Joktan, Almodad's father, is described as the ancestor of several Arabian tribes. His descendants, including Almodad, are believed to have settled in the southern regions of the Arabian Peninsula. (Gen.10.26-30)
Apart from being listed in the genealogies, no further details are provided about Almodad's life, his role within the family, or any specific events associated with him.
The inclusion of Almodad in the genealogies serves to document the branching out of the human family after the flood and to trace the origins of various nations and tribes. It also highlights the importance of genealogical records in the ancient Near Eastern context and their significance in the biblical narrative.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 13 are drawn. All 13 are listed below.
Child of
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Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Almodad is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (1) and 1 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 2 books.
Genesis1 verse
1 Chronicles1 verse
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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