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(Heb. Chemdan', חֶמְדָּן , pleasant; Sept. Ἀμαδά, Vulgate Hemdam), the first named of the foul "children" of Dishon, which latter was a son of Seir and one of the Horite "dukes" antecedent to the supremacy of the Edomites in Mt. Seir (Genesis 36:26). B.C. cir. 1964. In 1 Chronicles 1:41, the name is, by an error of transcribers, written Hamran (Heb. Chamrani, חִמְרָן, Sept. correctly Ἀμαδί, Vulg. Hanran, Eng.Vers. "‘ Amram"). "The name Hemdan is by Knobel (Genesis, p. 256) compared with those of Humeidy and Hamady, two of the five families of the tribe of Omriln r Amran, who are located to the E. and S.E. of Akaba (Robinson, Researches, 1, 268); also with the Bene-Hanzyde, who are found a short distance S. of Kerek (S.E. comer of the Dead Sea); and from thence to El- Busaireh, probably the ancient Bozrah, on the road to Petra. (See Burckhardt, Syria, etc., p. 695, 407.)