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Etam (Judahite ancestor)

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Description

Patriarch of a Judahite family group in 1 Chronicles 4:3, with sons Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash and daughter Hazzelelponi. Often understood as the eponym of the place of Etam (cf. Judges 15:8).

Relationships

Family tree

Two generations up and down. Click any other person to recenter the tree on them. Solid lines are parent-of relationships; dashed pink lines are spouses; dashed amber lines are debated/tradition-divergent edges.

Notes

1 Chronicles 4:3 reads literally 'these were father of Etam,' which is grammatically difficult; the LXX and most translations make Etam a person named here.