Baal-hanan (

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: בַּעַל חָנָן / בָּעַל חָנָן,

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''Baʿal Ḥanan'' Tiberian ''Baʿal Ḥānān'' / ''Bāʿal Ḥānān'') means "

Baal Baal (), or Baʻal, was a title and honorific meaning 'owner' or 'lord Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power (social and political), power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler. The ...

has been gracious". There are two men by this name in the

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. '' King King is a royal title given to a male monarch. A king is an Absolute monarchy, absolute monarch if he holds unrestricted Government, governmental power or exercises full sovereignty over a nation. Conversely, he is a Constitutional monarchy, ...

Edom Edom (; Edomite language, Edomite: ; , lit.: "red"; Akkadian language, Akkadian: , ; Egyptian language, Ancient Egyptian: ) was an ancient kingdom that stretched across areas in the south of present-day Jordan and Israel. Edom and the Edomi ...

. He is also mentioned in the King List in . He succeeded Shaul and was himself succeeded by Hadad. He was the son of Achbor. He is called the son of Achbor; but the name of his native city is not given. For this and other reasons, Marqaurt supposes that "son of Achbor" is a duplicate of "son of Beor" (Gen. 36:32), and that "Baal-hanan" in the original text is given as the name of the father of the next king, Hadar.Josef Markwart (Joseph Marquart), ''Fundamente Israelitischer und Jüdischer Gesch.'' 1896, pp. 10 et seq. The date and even historicity of his reign are unknown, as he is not mentioned in any other surviving source. In the

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there is also a second man by this name, from the city of Geder. In he is described as being responsible to

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for the care of

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and

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trees.

References

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