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[[File:Dhamar Ali Yahbur II.jpg|alt=|thumb|Statue of a South Arabian king. According to Arab genealogy, South Arabians descend from Qahtan who is identified with Joktan.]]There is an Arab tradition that Joktan was the progenitor of all the purest tribes of Southern Arabia.<ref>{{Citation |last=Easton |first=Matthew George |title=Joktan |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Easton's_Bible_Dictionary_(1897)/Joktan |work=Easton's Bible Dictionary |access-date=2022-03-11}}</ref> Joktan has been identified with Qahtān (Arabic: قحطان), the ancestral figure of [[Qahtanite|Qahtanites]], in traditional Arab genealogy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=JOKTAN - JewishEncyclopedia.com |url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8746-joktan |access-date=2022-03-11 |website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref> Three of Joktan's sons have connections to South Arabia. [[Sheba]] is identified as the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Saba.<ref>Finkelstein, Israel; Silberman, Neil Asher (2007). David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition. Simon & Schuster. p. 171.</ref> [[Hazarmaveth]] ([[Biblical Hebrew language|Biblical Hebrew]]: חֲצַרְמָוֶת, [[Romanization of Hebrew|tr.]] Ḥăṣarmāweṯ; [[Arabic language|Arabic]]: حضرموت) has been identified with the South Arabian region of [[Hadhramaut|Hadramawt]] and according to various Bible dictionaries, the name "Hazarmaveth" means "court of death" which reflects a meaning similar to the Arabic folk etymologies of the region.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hazarmaveth - Smith’s Bible Dictionary - Bible Dictionary |url=https://www.christianity.com/bible/dictionary/smiths-bible-dictionary/hazarmaveth.html |access-date=2022-03-11 |website=www.christianity.com}}</ref> [[Hadoram]] according to Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan is interpreted as denoting "the south" and it was a fortress to the south of Yemen's [[Sanaa|Sana'a]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Some interpret this as denoting 'the south.' This was a fortress to the south of San'a (Kesseth HaSofer). See 1 Chronicles 18:10; Zechariah 12:11. |url=http://bible.ort.org/books/pentd2.asp?ACTION=displaypage&BOOK=1&CHAPTER=10#C186}}</ref>