DEDAN, 3. A country, probably bordering on Edom

Jeremiah 49:8

8. Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of DEDAN; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.

Ezekiel 25:13

13. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of DEDAN shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 27:15-20

15. The men of DEDAN were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.

16. Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.

17. Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.

18. Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

19. Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.

20. DEDAN was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.

Ezekiel 38:13

13. Sheba, and DEDAN, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?