Medan, son of Abraham

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According to the Bible, Medan (Hebrew: מְדָן Məḏān "contention; to twist, conflict"); also spelt Madan in the Vulgate,[1] and in Josephus' writings,[2] was the third son of Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites, and Keturah whom he married after the death of Sarah.[3][4]

A portion of a page from the Venice Haggadah of 1609. Displays the three wives of Abraham and his sons. From the Yale University Library, "The image ... shows Abraham with the three women in his life. In the center are Sarah and Isaac; on the left are Hagar and Ishmael and on the right are Keturah and her children."
A portion of a page from the Venice Haggadah of 1609. Displays the three wives of Abraham and his sons. From the Yale University Library, "The image ... shows Abraham with the three women in his life. In the center are Sarah and Isaac; on the left are Hagar and Ishmael and on the right are Keturah and her children."

Medan had five brothers, Zimran, Jokshan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.[5] Josephus states that "Abraham contrived to settle them in colonies; and they took possession of Troglodytis and the country of Arabia Felix ("Arabia the Happy"), as far as it reaches to the Red Sea."[2] Little else is known about them.[6]

There is no known connection to neither the Madan people of Iran and Iraq, nor the city of Medan in North Sumatra, Indonesia.

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