Dishan

Dishan (meaning antelope or possibly a threshing) was the youngest of the seven sons of Seir the Horite, the heads of the Horite clans who inhabited the region of Seir before the Edomites (descendants of Esau) dispossessed and replaced them (Gen. 36:21, 28, 30; Deut. 2:12; 1 Chr. 1:38, 42). Dishan's two sons were Uz and Aran. The Horites—whose name may derive from a Semitic root meaning "cave dwellers"—occupied the territory that later became Edom in the Transjordanian highlands south of the Dead Sea.

Dishan appears only in the genealogical tables of the Horite clans in Genesis 36 and the parallel Chronicles list, with no narrative role. His inclusion in these records reflects the ancient Israelite recognition of the pre-Edomite inhabitants of the region and their ethnic connection to Abraham's family through his nephew Lot's descendants.