Personal name meaning, strife. Son of Shem and grandson of Noah in Table of Nations (Gen 10:22). Attempts to identify them with peoples mentioned in other Near Eastern sources have produced varying results: Lydians of Asia Minor called the Luddu by Assyrian records or the Lubdu living on the upper Tigris River. They were known for skill with the bow (Jer 46:9; Eze 30:5) which place them under Egyptians, otherwise, the reference is to mercenary soldiers from Lydia in Asia Minor serving in the Egyptian army, a practice apparently testified under Pharaoh Psammetichus before 600 B.C. Lydian soldiers apparently served in Tyre’s army (Eze 27:10). God promised even the isolated peoples like Lydia who had never heard of His glory would be invited to share in that glory (Isa 66:19).
2341 BC - 1941 BC