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Person

Arphaxad

Mentioned in 10 verses across 3 books, first in Genesis 10:22. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

At a glance

Gender

Male

Ussher–Jones reckoning

born c. 2346 BC · died c. 1908 BC

F. N. Jones’s Ussher-style chronology, used by Theographic: one of several traditional counts, added up from the ages and reigns in the Hebrew text. The Jewish count (Seder Olam) and the Septuagint’s figures differ from it, for early Genesis by centuries. Not a scholarly date.

Most early-Genesis dates are not historically established: they are reckoned from the ages in the genealogies, and nothing outside the text confirms them.

Group

Genealogy of Jesus

Family

Father

Shem

Siblings

Children

Cainan (son of Arphaxad)

As the dataset records them from the biblical genealogies.

Often appears with

Named in the same verses most often. Sharing a verse doesn’t always mean they met.

Shem6 verses
Salah5 verses
Elam (son of Shem)2 verses
Aram (son of Shem)2 verses
Asshur2 verses
Eber (Heber)2 verses
Lud2 verses
Uz (son of Aram)1 verse
Cainan (son of Arphaxad)1 verse
Mash1 verse
Lamech (father of Noah)1 verse
Noah1 verse
Hul1 verse
Gether1 verse

In the Bible

All 10 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Genesis

Genesis 10:22
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 10:24
Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.
Genesis 11:10
This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
Genesis 11:11
And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:12
When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.
Genesis 11:13
And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 1:17
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
1 Chronicles 1:18
Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.
1 Chronicles 1:24
So from Shem came Arphaxad, Shelah,

Luke

Luke 3:36
the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

Events

Events the dataset lists Arphaxad as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

c. 2346 BC
Birth of ArphaxadGenesis 11:10
c. 2346 BC
Lifetime of ArphaxadGenesis 11:12–13
c. 2311 BC
Birth of SalahGenesis 11:12
c. 1908 BC
Death of ArphaxadGenesis 11:13

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

Son of Shem, born the year after the Deluge. He died at the age of 438 years (Gen. 11:10-13; 1 Chr. 1:17, 18; Luke 3:36). 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.