ALMODAD

(Al·moʹdad) [the beloved; or, God is beloved].

First of Joktan’s thirteen sons; fourth generation after Shem; nephew of Peleg, through whom the Messianic lineage is traced. Almodad fathered one of the seventy post-Flood families, settling in Arabia. (Gen. 10:26, 32; 1 Chron. 1:20) Arabian tradition has him chief of the tribe Jurham and father of a wife of Ishmael.