Peleg

Peleg Scripture - Genesis 10:25

And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one [was] Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name [was] Joktan....

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Peleg in Wikipedia

Peleg (Hebrew: פֶּלֶג / פָּלֶג, Modern Péleg / Páleg Tiberian Péleḡ / Pāleḡ ; "division") is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two sons of Eber, an ancestor of the Israelites, according to the so-called "Table of Nations" in Genesis 10-11 and 1 Chronicles 1 . Peleg's son was Reu, born when Peleg was thirty, and he had other sons and ...

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Peleg Scripture - Genesis 11:17

And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters....

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Peleg Scripture - Genesis 11:19

And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters....

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Peleg in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

pe'-leg (pelegh, "watercourse," "division"): A son of Eber, and brother of Joktan. The derivation of the name is given: "for in his days was the earth divided" (niphleghah) (Gen 10:25; compare Lk 3:35, the King James Version "Phalec"). This probably refers to the scattering of the world's population and the confounding of its language recorded...

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Peleg in Naves Topical Bible

-Son of Eber Ge 10:25; 11:16-19; 1Ch 1:19,25...

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Peleg in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(division, part), son of Eber and brother of Joktan. Ge 10:25; 11:16 The only incident connected with his history is the statement that "in his days was the earth divided." an event embodied in the meaning of his name --"division." The reference is to a division of the family of Eber himself, the younger branch of which (the Joktanids) migrate...

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Peleg in Easton's Bible Dictionary

division, one of the sons of Eber; so called because "in his days was the earth divided" (Gen. 10:25). Possibly he may have lived at the time of the dispersion from Babel. But more probably the reference is to the dispersion of the two races which sprang from Eber, the one spreading towards Mesopotamia and Syria, and the other southward in...

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Peleg in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("division".) Eber's son, Joktan's brother (Genesis 10:25; Genesis 11:16). "In his days the earth was divided." His name marks an epoch in the world's history: (1) God's intimation of His will that the earth was to be divided in an orderly distribution of the various families of mankind, which order the Hamitic Babel builders tried to contra...

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