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Person

Nahor (father of Terah)

Also called Nachor

Mentioned in 7 verses across 4 books, first in Joshua 24:2. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

At a glance

Name

Nahor

Gender

Male

Ussher–Jones reckoning

born c. 2155 BC · died c. 2007 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

Serug

Children

Terah

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.

Terah5 verses
Serug3 verses
Abraham2 verses
Jacob (Israel)1 verse
Isaac1 verse
God1 verse
Joshuason of Nun1 verse

In the Bible

All 1 verse in Joshua, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Joshua

Joshua 24:2
And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.

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Events

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

c. 2155 BC
Birth of NahorGenesis 11:22
c. 2155 BC
Lifetime of NahorGenesis 11:24–25
c. 2126 BC
Birth of TerahGenesis 11:24
c. 2007 BC
Death of NahorGenesis 11:25

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

The father of Terah, who was the father of Abraham (Gen. 11:22-25; Luke 3:34).

In the Bible

Joshua

Events

Dictionary

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