**Medan** (Bahasa Ibrani: מְדָ֥ן "pertengkaran, konflik"), juga dieja **Madan** adalah putra ketiga dari Abraham dan Ketura, menurut catatan Alkitab Ibrani dan Perjanjian Lama di Alkitab Kristen. Ketura adalah gundik yang dinikahi Abraham setelah kematian Sara. Medan memiliki lima saudara, Zimran, Yoksan, Midian, Isybak, dan Suah.

Sejarawan Yahudi-Romawi dari abad ke-1 M, Flavius Yosefus (37-100), membuat catatan bahwa "Abraham diciptakan untuk menetap di koloni-koloni mereka, dan mereka mengambil kepemilikan *Troglodytis* dan negara Arabia mencapai ke Laut Merah." Abraham, dalam semua kemungkinan, mencoba untuk menjaga mereka terpisah dari Ishak untuk menghindari konflik saat memenuhi perjanjian dengan Allah untuk menyebar dan menghuni bumi. Tidak banyak yang diketahui tentang Medan.

Tidak diketahui adanya kaitan dengan "**bangsa Madan**" yang bermukim di Iran dan Irak.

Silsilah
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Menurut catatan Alkitab, silsilah Medan bin Abraham adalah sebagai berikut:

|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  |  |  |  |  |  | Nahor |  |  |  |  |  |
|
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|
| *istri* |  |  |  | Terah |  |  |  |  |  | *istri* |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  | Sara |  |  |  | **Abraham** |  | Ketura |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Haran |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Nahor |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Hagar |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Milka |  |  |  |  | Yiska |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Zimran |  |  |  |  |  |  | Us |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |
|  |  | Ismael |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Yoksan |  |  |  |  |  |  | Bus |  | Lot |  |  |  |  | *istri* |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Medan |  |  |  |  |  |  | Kemuel |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Nebayot |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Midian |  |  |  |  |  |  | Kesed |  |  |  |  |  |  | *putri sulung* |  | *putri bungsu* |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  | Kedar |  |  |  | Isybak |  |  |  |  |  |  | Hazo |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Adbeel |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Suah |  |  |  |  |  |  | Pildash |  |  | *S. Moab* |  | *S. Amon* |
|  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  | Mibsam |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Yidlaf |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |
| Misyma |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Betuel |
|  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Ishak |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Mahalat |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Ribka |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Laban |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Esau |  | Yakub |  | Lea |  | Bilha |  | Zilpa |  | Rahel |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Duma |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | *S. Edom* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Masa |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  | Hadad |  |  |  | 1. Ruben |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 5. Dan |  |  | 7. Gad |  |  | 11. Yusuf |
|  |  |  |  |  |
| Tema |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2. Simeon |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  | Yetur |  |  |  | 3. Lewi |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 6. Naftali |  |  | 8. Asyer |  |  | 12. Benyamin |
|  |  |  |  |  |
| Nafish |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 4. Yehuda |  |
|  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  | Kedma |  |  |  | 9. Isakhar |  |  |
|  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 10. Zebulon |  |
|  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Dina ♀ |  |  |
|  |

**Keterangan**

|  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  |   |  : Kawin |
|  |   |  : Keturunan |

Lihat pula
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* Abraham
* Ketura
* Midian
* Bagian Alkitab yang berkaitan: Kejadian 25, 1 Tawarikh 1

Referensi
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1. 1 2  Flavius Yosefus, *Antiquitates Iudaicae*, 1.15.1
2. ↑  Kejadian 25:2–6
3. ↑   1 Tawarikh 1:32
4. ↑  Kejadian 25:1–6
5. ↑  Kejadian 1:27,28
6. ↑  Kejadian 9:1
7. ↑  Flavius Yosefus, *Antiquitates Iudaicae*, 1.4.1-3
8. ↑  *Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary*, *Volume 1*, Review and Herald Publishing Association (Washington, D.C. USA), 1953, p.367