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Person Old Testament

Bedan

Bedan was a descendant of Manasseh, listed in the genealogy of Machir and Gilead. Mentioned once in Scripture, at 1 Chronicles 7:17.

Why it matters. A descendant of Manasseh through Machir and Gilead.

Primary passages
Last reviewed
2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team

About Bedan

Bedan is briefly mentioned in 1Ch.7.17 as a descendant of Manasseh, the son of Joseph. The context of the passage is the genealogy of the tribe of Manasseh, focusing on the descendants of Machir and Gilead. Bedan is listed as the son of Ulam, who was the son of Gilead's daughter.

Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.

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Family

Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.

Parents
Ulam

Appears in Scripture

Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.

  • 1 Chronicles (1 verse)

    7:17

Record type: Person. FaithGraph explanations on this page are editorial and are not Scripture.