Nahor
Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram,
Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot....
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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....
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And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master,
and departed; for all the goods of his master [were] in his
hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of
Nahor....
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Nahor (or Nachor) (Heb. נָחֹור) is the name of two persons in
Torah who were both descended from Arpachshad:
The son of Serug and father of Terah, who was the father of
Abraham. According to Jubilees, his mother was Milcah daughter
of Kaber, and he married 'Iyoska, daughter of Nesteg of the
kin of Ur Kasdim (the son of Arpachshad for whom Ur wa...
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na'-hor (nachor; in the New Testament Nachor):e representative
of Naphtali among the 12 spies (Nu 13:14).
(1) Son of Serug and grandfather of Abraham (Gen 11:22-25; 1
Ch 1:26).
(2) Son of Terah and brother of Abraham (Gen 11:26,27,29;
22:20,23; 24:15,24,47; 29:5; Josh 24:2).
A city of Nahor is mentioned in Gen 24:10; the God of Nahor in
Gen 31:...
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-1. Grandfather of Abraham
Ge 11:22-26; 1Ch 1:26
In the lineage of Christ
Lu 3:34
-2. Brother of Abraham
Ge 11:26; Jos 24:2
Marriage and descendants of
Ge 11:27,29; 22:20-24; 24:15,24...
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(snorting), the name of two persons in the family of
Abraham.
1. His grandfather; the son of Serug and father of
Terah. Ge 11:22-25 (B.C. 2174.)
2. Grandson of the preceding son of Terah and brother
of Abraham and Haran. Ge 11:26,27 (B.C. 2000.) The order of
the ages of the family of Terah is not improbably inverted in
the narrative; in whic...
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snorting. (1.) The father of Terah, who was the father of
Abraham (Gen. 11:22-25; Luke 3:34).
(2.) A son of Terah, and elder brother of Abraham
(Gen. 11:26,
27; Josh. 24:2, 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 (Gen. 11:27-32).
A
co...
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1. Abraham's grandfather.
2. Abraham's brother. (See ABRAHAM.) Nahor was his
elder brother; married Milcah his niece, Haran's daughter, who
bore eight sons (Genesis 11:26-29; Genesis 22:20-24). His
concubine Reumah bore Zebah and Maachah (whose descendants
David came in contact with: 1 Chronicles 18:8; 1 Chronicles
19:6), Gaham and Thahash. ...
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