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Nahor (Hebrew: נָחוֹר – Nāḥōr; Greek: Ναχώρ – Nakhṓr) is the son of Serug according to the Hebrew Bible in Genesis Chapter 11. [1] He is said to have lived to the age of 148 years old [2] [3] or 208 according to the Greek Septuagint (LXII) and had a son, Terah, at the age of 29 (79 in the LXX Vat and LXX Brenton) .
Serug (Hebrew: שְׂרוּג – Śərūḡ, "branch"; Greek: Σερούχ – Seroúkh) was the son of Reu and the father of Nahor, according to Genesis 11:20–23. He is also the great-grandfather of Abraham , thus the ancestor of the Ishmaelites and the Israelites .
In the account of Terah's family mentioned in the Book of Genesis (Genesis 11:26–32), Nahor II (Hebrew: נָחוֹר – Nāḥōr) is listed as the son of Terah, amongst two other brothers, Abram and Haran . His grandfather was Nahor I, son of Serug. Nahor married the daughter of his brother Haran, Milcah, his niece .
Nahor, son of Serug, a person mentioned in the Bible and the father of Terah and paternal grandfather of Abraham; Nahor, son of Terah, a person mentioned in the Bible and the brother of Abraham; Nahor, a town in the region of Aram-Naharaim that was named after the son of Terah; Nahor, Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
Terah is mentioned in Genesis 11:26–32 as a son of Nahor, the son of Serug, descendants of Shem. [6] He is said to have had three sons: Abram (better known by his later name Abraham), Haran, and Nahor II, and one daughter: Sarai (better known by her later name Sarah). The family lived in Ur of the Chaldees.
According to Genesis Chapter 22, Milcah and Nahor have eight children: Uz, Buz, Kemuel, Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel. [7] Targum Jonathan says that Providence granted Milcah conception in the merit of her sister Sarah. [8] Milcah's son Bethuel moves to Padan-aram (also called Aram-Naharaim) and fathers Rebekah. [9]
His wife was Ora, daughter of 'Ûr, (the son of Kesed) (Jubilees 11:1). [2] According to the Masoretic text (Genesis 11:20), Reu was 32 when Serug was born and lived to the age of 239 (when Abraham was either 18 or 78). The Septuagint and Samaritan Pentateuch state that his age on fathering Serug was 132, and the Septuagint thus gives age at ...
Bethuel (Hebrew: בְּתוּאֵל – Bəṯūʾēl), in the Hebrew Bible, was an Aramean man, [1] the youngest son of Nahor and Milcah, [2] the nephew of Abraham, and the father of Laban and Rebecca. [3] Bethuel was also a town in the territory of the tribe of Simeon, west of the Dead Sea. [4]