Dedan
Dedan was an Arabian people and region, known for their involvement in trade.
The name Dedan means “their breasts; friendship; a judge”
PlaceOld Testament3 books7 verses
Summary
Location
- Identified as
- Al Khuraybah
- Certainty
- Likely (85% of scholarship)
- Coordinates
- 26.650° N, 37.917° E
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- Founded by
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Mentions
- This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.
- Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;
- Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.
- …therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
- The men of Dedan were your clients; many coastlands were your market; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.
- Dedan was your merchant in saddlecloths for riding.
- Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will ask, ‘Have you come to capture the plunder? Have you assembled your hordes to carry away loot, to make off with silver and gold, to take cattle and goods, to seize great spoil?’