Jokshan (Arabic: يقشان, Hebrew: יָקשָׁן yoqšān). According to the Bible he was a son of Abraham (Avraham) and his wife[1] or concubine[2] Keturah, whom he wed after the death of Sarah.[3] Jokshan had five brothers: Zimran, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah;[4] as well as two half brothers: Ishmael (Ismail) and Isaac (Ishaq). He was Keturah's second son and Abraham's fourth.

Josephus records that "Abraham contrived to settle them in colonies; and they took possession of Troglodytis and the country of Arabia Felix, as far as it reaches to the Red Sea."[5]

Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. Dedan had three sons, named Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.[6]

In his "History of the Prophets and Kings", Tabari says that the wife of the North Arabian ancestor Adnan, Mahdad bint Laham, was a descendant of Jokshan (Yaqshan).

References

  1. ^ Genesis 25:1
  2. ^ 1Chronicles 1:32
  3. ^ Genesis 25:2–6
  4. ^ Genesis 25:1–6
  5. ^ Josephus, Flavius, Antiquities, 1.15.1
  6. ^ Genesis 25:3
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