게달(Kedar) 은
Ishmael (Son of Abraham) 의 아들 중 하나이다.
These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth , then Kedar , Adbeel , Mibsam,
이 후손들이 하나의 일족을 이뤘으며,
이들이 거주하던 지역 역시 게달로 불리웠다. 이 지역은 대대로 목축이 이뤄지는 지역으로 묘사가 된다.
For pass over to the islands of Kittim , and see. Send to Kedar , and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.
All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will serve you. They will be accepted as offerings on my altar; and I will beautify my glorious house.
28 Of Kedar , and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. Yahweh says: “Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.
29 They will take their tents and their flocks. they will carry away for themselves their curtains, all their vessels, and their camels; and they will cry to them, ‘Terror on every side!’
Song of Solomon 에서 등장하는 술람미 여인이 스스로의 외모를 "게달의 장막"이라 표현했는데 이는 거칠고 보잘것 없음을 의미하는 표현으로 보인다.
5 6 Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.
Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar !
이들은 전쟁을 할 때 주로 활을 사용했던 것으로 보인다.
16 For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar , will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel , has spoken it.”