# Bedan

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Biblical deliverer of the Israelites

This article is about the Biblical figure Bedan. For other uses, see [Bedan (disambiguation)](/source/Bedan_(disambiguation)).

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**Bedan** ([Hebrew](/source/Hebrew_language): בְּדָן *Bəḏān*) is named as one of the deliverer of [Israelites](/source/Israelite) in 1 [Samuel](/source/Books_of_Samuel) 12:11.[1]

He is not mentioned elsewhere as a [judge of Israel](/source/Biblical_judges).[2] Bishop [Simon Patrick](/source/Simon_Patrick) and others (including the [Talmud](/source/Talmud)[3]) posit the name to be a contraction of *ben Dan* ("the son of Dan") by which they suppose [Samson](/source/Samson) is meant, as the [Targum](/source/Targum) reads.[4] The [Septuagint](/source/Septuagint), [Syriac](/source/Syriac_versions_of_the_Bible), and [Arabic](/source/Bible_translations_into_Arabic), however, refer to the name as [Barak](/source/Barak), instead of Bedan; and the two latter versions list in that verse Samson as the last deliverer of the Israelites, instead of [Samuel](/source/Samuel).[5] These readings are adopted by [Charles François Houbigant](/source/Charles_Fran%C3%A7ois_Houbigant), and appear to be genuine, for it is not probable that Samuel would enumerate himself.[6] The letters forming Bedan (בדן) Barak (ברק) in the Hebrew are very similar, and a scribe might easily have written the one for the other, and the mistake might well have been perpetuated.[7] Others contend that this is no mistake, but that Bedan (B'dan) is simply a variant or contracted form of the name [Abdon](/source/Abdon_(Judges)).[8]

Bedan is the name of a descendant of [Manasseh](/source/Manasseh_(tribal_patriarch)) in 1 [Chronicles](/source/Books_of_Chronicles) 7:17 [9]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [1 Samuel 12:11](https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt08a12.htm#11)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-bedan_2-0)** [BibleGateway – Quick search: Bedan](http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=Bedan&qs_version=9)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Singer, Isidore](/source/Isidore_Singer); et al., eds. (1901–1906). ["Samson"](http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=S&artid=122). *[The Jewish Encyclopedia](/source/The_Jewish_Encyclopedia)*. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Study Light Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary 1 Samuel 12:11](https://www.studylight.org/commentary/1-samuel/12-11.html)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [Bible Study Tools Commentaries:1 Samuel 12:11](https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/1-samuel-12-11.html)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Study Light Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary 1 Samuel 12:11](https://www.studylight.org/commentary/1-samuel/12-11.html)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [\[1\]](https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/bedan/#:~:text=Easton's%20Bible%20Dictionary%20%2D%20Bedan&text=one%20of%20the%20judges%20of,(%20Judges%2012%3A13%20))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [Study Light Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary 1 Samuel 12:11](https://www.studylight.org/commentary/1-samuel/12-11.html)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [1 Chronicices 7:17](https://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt25a07.htm)

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