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NAHOR

(Heb. nāḥôr)

(PERSON)

1. A son of Serug, the sixth recorded generation from Shem. At age 29 Nahor fathered Terah, who later became the father of Abram. Dying when 148 years old, Nahor lived well into the life of Abram (Gen. 11:22-26).

2. A son of Terah and brother of Abram (Gen. 11:27-29). Nahor married his brother Haran’s daughter Milcah, who gave birth to eight children (Gen. 22:20-23). One of these, Bethuel, was the father of Rebekah, who married Isaac. Nahor’s concubine Reumah bore him four additional offspring (Gen. 22:24). If the names here have the function of eponyms, this account would present Nahor — similar to Ishmael (Gen. 25:16) and Jacob (49:28) — as the progenitor of 12 kindred tribes.

Edwin C. Hostetter






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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