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Nahor married the daughter of his brother Haran, Milcah, his niece . They may all have been born and raised in the city of Ur: the biblical account states that "Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans" (Genesis 11:28). In the King James Version, Nahor is also referred to as Nachor (Joshua 24:2).
Ibn Ezra wrote in his commentary on Gen. 11:29 that Haran, Milcah's father, was a different person from Haran, Abraham's brother. Milcah was married to Nahor, who was also a brother of Abraham. Under Ibn Ezra's interpretation Milcah's husband was not also her uncle. [14]
The following is a family tree for the descendants of the line of Noah's son Shem, through Abraham to Jacob and his sons. Dashed lines are marriage connections. Not all individuals in this portion of the Bible are given names. For example, one English translation of the Bible states in Genesis 11:13 that "After the birth of Shelah,
Nahor (brother) Haran or Aran ( Hebrew : הָרָן Hārān ) [ 1 ] is a man in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible . [ 2 ] He was a son of Terah , brother of Abraham , and father of son Lot and daughters Milcah and Iscah .
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 or Terach (Hebrew: תֶּרַח Teraḥ) is a biblical figure in the Book of Genesis.He is listed as the son of Nahor and father of the patriarch Abraham.As such, he is a descendant of Shem's son Arpachshad.
Although the placename can be found in English as Haran, Charan, and Charran, it should not be confused with the personal name Haran, one of Abram's two brothers.The biblical placename is חָרָן (with a ḥet) in Hebrew, pronounced and can mean "parched," but is more likely to mean "road" or "crossroad," cognate to Old Babylonian ḫaranu (MSL 09, 124-137 r ii 54').
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) .