Genesis 10:27 names him as the sixth son of Yaktan; his siblings were Almodad (אַלְמוֹדָד), Shaleph (שָׁלֶף - also rendered as Sheleph), Chatsar-mavet (חֲצַרְמָוֶת), Yarach (יָרַח- Jerah in most English versions), Hadoram (הֲדוֹרָם), Diklah (דִּקְלָה), Oval (עוֹבָל), Avi-Ma-El (אֲבִימָאֵל), Sheva (שְׁבָא), Ophir (אוֹפִר), Chavilah (חֲוִילָה) and Yovav (יוֹבָב), unusually thirteen, where normally we expect the constellatory twelve. The odd-man-out is Chatsar-mavet - Yemenite Arabs - so probably there were twelve, and once again it is not so much a genealogical table as a mythological formulation for the arrangement of the Yoktanite clans - see my notes on the Number Twelve.
The meaning of the name is unknown; its origins almost certainly non-Yehudit.
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