Arphaxad

Gender: Male

Years: -2346 - 26

Dictionary Text: Son of Shem, born the year after the Deluge. He died at the age of 438 years;,;. He dwelt in Mesopotamia, and became, according to the Jewish historian Josephus, the progenitor of the Chaldeans. The tendency is to recognize in the word the name of the country nearest the ancient domain of the Chaldeans. Some regard the word as an Egypticized form of the territorial name of Ur Kasdim, or Ur of the Chaldees.

Family Members

• Father: Shem
• Siblings:
  • Lud
  • Asshur
  • Aram
  • Elam
• Children:
  • Cainan

Verses

• Genesis 10:22: The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
• Genesis 11:11: And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
• 1 Chronicles 1:17: The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
• Genesis 11:10: These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
• Genesis 11:12: And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
• 1 Chronicles 1:18: And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
• Genesis 10:24: And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
• Genesis 11:13: And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
• 1 Chronicles 1:24: Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,
• Luke 3:36: Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech,