Dict: easton - Dedan

easton:

Dedan @ low ground.

(1.) A son of Raamah kjv@Genesis:10:7). His descendants are mentioned in kjv@Isaiah:21:13, and kjv@Ezekiel:27:15. They probably settled among the sons of Cush, on the north-west coast of the Persian Gulf.

(2.) A son of Jokshan, Abraham's son by Keturah ( kjv@1Chronicles:1:32). His descendants settled on the Syrian borders about the territory of Edom. They probably led a pastoral life.

Dedanim @ the descendants of Dedan, the son of Raamah. They are mentioned in kjv@Isaiah:21:13 as sending out "travelling companies" which lodged "in the forest of Arabia." They are enumerated also by Ezekiel (27:20) among the merchants who supplied Tyre with precious things.