Nahor

Gender: Male

Years: -2056 - -1739

Dictionary Text: A son of Terah, and elder brother of Abraham,;, R.V.. He married Milcah, the daughter of his brother Haran, and remained in the land of his nativity on the east of the river Euphrates at Haran. A correspondence was maintained between the family of Abraham in Canaan and the relatives in the old ancestral home at Haran till the time of Jacob. When Jacob fled from Haran all intercourse between the two branches of the family came to an end. His grand-daughter Rebekah became Isaac’s wife.

Disambiguation Notes: Nahor (father of Abram)

Family Members

• Father: Terah
• Siblings:
  • Haran
  • Abraham
  • Sarah
• Children:
  • Thahash
  • Jidlaph
  • Chesed
  • Bethuel
  • Maachah
  • Buz
  • Hazo
  • Huz
  • Kemuel
  • Tebah
  • Gaham
  • Pildash

Verses

• Genesis 11:26: And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
• Genesis 11:29: And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
• Genesis 24:15: And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
• Genesis 24:24: And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
• Genesis 29:5: And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.
• Genesis 11:27: Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
• Genesis 22:23: And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
• Genesis 22:20: And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;
• Genesis 31:53: The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
• Genesis 24:47: And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.