Dict: smith - BEDAN

smith:

BEDAN - B>@ - (son of judgement). Mentioned in ( kjv@1Samuel:12:11) as a judge of Israel between Jerubbaal (Gideon) and Jephthah. The Chaldee Paraphrase reads Samson for Bedan; the LXX., Syriac and Arabic all have Barak. Ewald suggests that it may be a false reading for Abdon. (B.C. about 1150.) The son of Gilead. ( kjv@1Chronicles:7:17)