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(bee' dan) Personal name of uncertain meaning. 1. Listed as a judge in 1 Samuel 12:11 . This is usually seen as work of copyist, but the original reading is uncertain. The closest name of the judges would be Barak (Judges 4-5 ). Bedan is a son of Gilead in 1 Chronicles 7:17 and could be another name for Jephthah, a son of Gilead ( Judges 11:1 ). Early Jewish rabbis read ben-Dan, “son of Dan” and thought Samson was intended (Judges 13:2 , Judges 13:24 ). Others read Abdon (Judges 12:13-15 ). NIV, TEV, NRSV read Barak for Bedan. 2. A descendant of Machir and Manasseh (1 Chronicles 7:17 ).

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Butler, Trent C. Editor. Entry for 'Bedan'. Holman Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hbd/b/bedan.html. 1991.

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