OBAL

(Oʹbal).

The eighth listed of Joktan’s thirteen sons, each of whom founded one of the seventy post-Flood families; descendant of Shem. Exactly where the tribe of Obal settled is uncertain, but similar names occur in Yemenite SW Arabia.—Gen. 10:21, 25-30; 1 Chron. 1:20, 22.