Ishbak ( ''Yīšbāq'', "he will leave; leaving"), also spelled Jisbak and Josabak, was, according to the
Bible, the fifth son of
Abraham and
Keturah. Ishbak had five brothers,
Zimran,
Jokshan,
Medan,
Midian and
Shuah
Shuah is the name of one of four minor Biblical figures. It is sometimes used as the name of a fifth. Their names are different in Hebrew, but they were all transliterated as "Shuah" in the King James Version.
Genesis 25
Shuah (, "ditch; swimmi ...
.
Josephus tells us that "Abraham contrived to settle them in colonies; and they took possession of
Troglodytis and the country of
Arabia the Happy, as far as it reaches to the
Red Sea
The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and th ...
." Little else is known about him, but his descendants may be the people identified in a cuneiform inscription to a people known as ''Jasbuqu''.
[''Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume 1'', Review and Herald Publishing Association (Washington, D.C., USA), 1953, p.367]
References
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External links
''Easton's Bible Dictionary'':Ishbak
Children of Abraham
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