Genesis 25:4 names him as a son of Midyan, one of Av-Raham's sons by Keturah. This should not, however, be read as biological - the Keturah list is simply a latter-day version of map-making, before the method of atlasing had been invented: an inventory of names of tribes, towns, key places, across the southern portion of Arabia, all of them connected by their following the same broad religion, of which Av-Ram, and Av-Raham, and quite probably its Sanskrit equivalent Brahma too, were dialect variations of the name of the "Great Father", the sun god.
The name El-Da'ah means, literally "whom El knows", from Yad'a (ידע) = "to know". El being the Kena'ani name for the same "Great Father".
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