Obal

Smith's Bible Dictionary

O'bal. (Stripped Bare). Son of Joktan, and, like the rest of family, apparently the founder of an Arab tribe.  Genesis 10:28. In  1 Chronicles 1:22, the name is written, Ebal .

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Joktan's son ( Genesis 10:28). EBAL in  1 Chronicles 1:22. Bochart conjectures that the troglodyte Aralitae of eastern Africa represent Obal.

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

Son of Joktan. ( Genesis 10:28) Derived from Balah, old age.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

OBAL (  Genesis 10:28 ). See Ebal, No. 1 .

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Genesis 10:28 1 Chronicles 1:22

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Genesis 10:28 1 Chronicles 1:22

Morrish Bible Dictionary

See EBAL.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Obal', עובָל , a Bare district; Sept. Εὐάλ v. r. Γέβαλ; Vulg. Ebal), son of Joktan, B.C. post 2060, and head of an Arabian tribe, mentioned in  Genesis 10:28, and of the region wherein it dwelt,  1 Chronicles 1:22 (where it is called EBAL, q.v.). Bochart (Phal. 2:23) understands the Avalites, a people on the ‘ Ethiopian coast, near the Strait of Bab el- Mandeb (Ptolemy, 4:87), who gave name to the Sinus Abalites (Pliny, 6:34). They were a commercial people-(Forster, Geogr. of Arabia, 1:148). Others make Obal the same with the Gobolitis of Josephus (Γοβολῖτις, Ant. 2:1, 2; 3:2, 1; see Schulthess, Parad. p. 84), but here there is not even a resemblance (גְּבָל and עֹבָל ). (See Arabia).