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Person

Peleg

Also called Phalec

Mentioned in 8 verses across 3 books, first in Luke 3:35. 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. 2247 BC · died c. 2008 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

Eber (Heber)

Siblings

Joktan

Children

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.

Eber (Heber)6 verses
Reu4 verses
Joktan2 verses
Salah1 verse
Serug1 verse

In the Bible

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

Luke

Luke 3:35
the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,

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Events

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

c. 2247 BC
Birth of PelegGenesis 11:16
c. 2247 BC
Lifetime of PelegGenesis 11:18–19
c. 2217 BC
Birth of ReuGenesis 11:18
c. 2008 BC
Death of PelegGenesis 11:19

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

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 into Arabia.

In the Bible

Luke

Events

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