Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(stone). (1) Son of Shobal (Gen. 36:23). (2) Son of Joktan (1 Chron. 1:22). Obal (Gen. 10:28).
Concise Bible Dictionary:
1. Son of Shobal, a son of Seir (Gen. 36:23; 1 Chron. 1:40).
2. Son of Joktan, a descendant of Shem (1 Chron. 1:22). Called OBAL in Genesis 28.
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Meaning:
perhaps from an unused root probably meaning to be bald; bare; Ebal, a mountain of Palestine
Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:
heaps of nothing: heaps of confusion
Potts’ Bible Proper Names:
Very thick; fat; stone; bare:―name of a person and of a mountain [OBAL], Gen. 36:23. {Crassissimus}