jerah Summary and Overview

(the moon), the fourth in order of the sons of Joktan, #Ge 10:26; 1Ch 1:20| and the progenitor of a tribe of southern Arabia.

JE'RAH (moon), a people descended from Joktan, who gave name to a region of Arabia, Gen 10:26: 1 Chr 1:20; perhaps the Moon Coast and Moon Mountains, near Hazarmaveth. Bochart proposes to identify this people with the Alilaei, or Beni-Hilal, "sons of the new moon." dwelling in the south of Chawlan.

="the moon." Joktan's fourth son, forefather of a southern Arab tribe. The fortress Yerakh in the Mahra country, to the E. of Hadramaut, seems akin in name.