aholibamah Summary and Overview

tent of the height, the name given to Judith, the daughter of Beeri = Anah (Gen. 26:34; 36:2), when she became the wife of Esau. A district among the mountains of Edom, probably near Mount Hor, was called after her name, or it may be that she received her name from the district. From her descended three tribes of Edomites, founded by her three sons.

(my tabernacle is exulted), One of the three wives of Esau. (B.C. 1797.) She was the daughter of Anah. #Ge 36:2,26| In the earlier narrative, #Ge 26:34| Aholi-bamah is called Judith, which may have been her original name.

One of Esau's three wives. Daughter of Anah, or Beeri, a descendant of Seir the Horite. (See ANAH; BEERI.) Through her Esau's descendants the Edomites became occupants of mount Seir. Each of her three sons, Jeush. Jaalam, Korah, became head of a tribe. Her personal name was Judith (Genesis 26:34). Aholibamah was her married name, taken from the district, in the heights of Edom, near mount Hor and Petra; Aholibamah is therefore the name given her in the genealogical table of Edom (Genesis 36:2; Genesis 36:18; Genesis 36:25; Genesis 36:41; Genesis 36:43; the names here are of places, not persons; 1 Chronicles 1:52). Each of Esau's wives has a name. in the genealogy different from that it, the history.