A place name mentioned in Ezekiel's oracle against Tyre, likely a trading city. Connected to the vast commercial networks of the ancient Near East. Represents the reach of global commerce and its spiritual dangers.
Ezekiel 27 catalogs the immense trade network of Tyre as a metaphor for worldly wealth and self-sufficiency that leads to pride and judgment. Vedan, as one node in this network, illustrates how economic systems can become idolatrous — replacing trust in God with trust in markets, supply chains, and human ingenuity. The chapter's vivid destruction of Tyre foreshadows Revelation 18's fall of 'Babylon the Great.'