Person
Basemath
Esau's Hittite wife
Hittite wife of Esau, daughter of Elon, whose marriage caused grief to his parents Isaac and Rebekah (Genesis 26).
Who or what is this?
Basemath was one of 's wives, identified in Genesis 26:34 as the daughter of Elon the . Esau married her when he was forty years old, and the text states that she and his other wife Judith "were a grief of mind unto and to " — their foreign marriages troubled his parents greatly. This Basemath should be distinguished from another wife of Esau named Basemath in Genesis 36:3, who is identified there as the daughter of , suggesting the name was used for more than one of his wives.
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