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'''Aholibamah''' ([[Hebrew]] |
'''Aholibamah''' ([[Hebrew]]: {{Script/Hebrew|אָהֳלִיבָמָה}} ''ʾĀhŏlīḇāmā''; "My tabernacle of/is height/exaltation" or "Tent of the High Place"<ref name = "Phillips, 284">Phillips, J. ''Exploring Genesis: an expository commentary'', ({{ISBN|0-8254-3488-2}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8254-3488-4}}), 2001, p. 284</ref>), is an eight-time referenced matriarch in the biblical record.<ref>[[Book of Genesis]] 36:2,5,14,18,25,41; & [[1 Chronicles]] 1:52</ref> |
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Aholibamah (a descendant of [[Ishmael#Family_tree|Ishmael]]) was the daughter of [[List of Biblical figures#Anah|Anah]] of Zibeon the [[Hivite]]. Her maternal grandfather was Zibeon the Hivite, son of Seir the [[Horite]].<ref>{{bible verse||Genesis|36:2|HE}}</ref> She was one of two Canaanite women who married [[Esau]], the son of [[Isaac]], when he was in his forties. Isaac and his wife [[Rebecca]], however, were greatly opposed to this union.<ref>{{bible verse||Genesis|26:35|HE}}</ref> So, according to some Biblical scholars, Esau changed her name to the [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] name "Judith", as to pacify his parents.<ref>Phillips, ''Exploring Genesis'', p. 284, 285</ref> |
Aholibamah (a descendant of [[Ishmael#Family_tree|Ishmael]]) was the daughter of [[List of Biblical figures#Anah|Anah]] of Zibeon the [[Hivite]]. Her maternal grandfather was Zibeon the Hivite, son of Seir the [[Horite]].<ref>{{bible verse||Genesis|36:2|HE}}</ref> She was one of two Canaanite women who married [[Esau]], the son of [[Isaac]], when he was in his forties. Isaac and his wife [[Rebecca]], however, were greatly opposed to this union.<ref>{{bible verse||Genesis|26:35|HE}}</ref> So, according to some Biblical scholars, Esau changed her name to the [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] name "Judith", as to pacify his parents.<ref>Phillips, ''Exploring Genesis'', p. 284, 285</ref> |
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Revision as of 00:18, 26 December 2021
Aholibamah (Hebrew: אָהֳלִיבָמָה ʾĀhŏlīḇāmā; "My tabernacle of/is height/exaltation" or "Tent of the High Place"[1]), is an eight-time referenced matriarch in the biblical record.[2]
Aholibamah (a descendant of Ishmael) was the daughter of Anah of Zibeon the Hivite. Her maternal grandfather was Zibeon the Hivite, son of Seir the Horite.[3] She was one of two Canaanite women who married Esau, the son of Isaac, when he was in his forties. Isaac and his wife Rebecca, however, were greatly opposed to this union.[4] So, according to some Biblical scholars, Esau changed her name to the Hebrew name "Judith", as to pacify his parents.[5]
Biblical scholars have thus conciliated the two different name accounts given in Genesis for the three wives of Esau:
- Basemath (Genesis 26:34–35) = Adah (Genesis 36:2,3), the daughter of Elon the Hittite;
- Judith (Genesis 26:34–35) = Aholibamah (Genesis 36:2,3), also a Canaanite;
- Mahalath (Genesis 26:34–35) = Bashemath (Genesis 36:2,3), Esau's cousin and third wife, daughter of Ishmael.
The name Aholibamah appears again later among the listed clans of Edom, suggesting that a descendant of Esau had the same (female) name and became a chief.[6]
In popular culture
In the fantasy novel Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle, Oholibamah was the daughter of a nephil (fallen angel). She married into the family of Noah.
In The Red Tent, Oholibamah is mentioned as having died in childbirth, leaving only Adath and Basemath, both bitter rivals for Esau's affections.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
- ^ Phillips, J. Exploring Genesis: an expository commentary, (ISBN 0-8254-3488-2, ISBN 978-0-8254-3488-4), 2001, p. 284
- ^ Book of Genesis 36:2,5,14,18,25,41; & 1 Chronicles 1:52
- ^ Genesis 36:2
- ^ Genesis 26:35
- ^ Phillips, Exploring Genesis, p. 284, 285
- ^ Genesis 36:41
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