Jerah
Jerah
(Heb. Ye’rach, , in pause , Ya’rach, the moon, as often; Sept. , but omits in 1Ch 1:20, where, however, some copies have Iaeip; Vulg. Jare), the fourth in order of the sons of Joktan, apparently the founder of an Arab tribe, who probably had their settlement near Hazarmaveth and Hadoram, between which the name occurs (Gen 10:26), the general location of all the Joktanidae being given in Gen 10:30 as extending from Mesha eastward to Mount Sephar. Bochart (Phaleg, 2, 19) thinks the word is Hebrew, but a translation of an equivalent Arabic name, and understands the Alaloei to be meant, a tribe inhabiting the auriferous region on the Red Sea (Agatharch. 49; Strabo, 16, p. 277 Diod. Sic. 3, 44), and conjectures that their true name was Benay Haila, Sons of the Moon, on account of their worship of that luminary under the title Alilat (Herodotus, 3, 8). He also observes that a tribe exists near Mecca with the title sons of the moon, probably the Hilalites mentioned by Niebuhr (Description of Arabia, p. 270). That the Alilaei, however, were worshippers of Alilat is an assumption unsupported by facts; but, whatever may be said in its favor, the people in question are not the Bene-Hill, who take their name from a kinsman of Mohammed, in the fifth generation before him, of the well-known stock of Keys (Caussin, Essai, Tab. X A; Abu-l-Fid, Hist. anteisl. ed.. Fleischer, p. 194). The connection renders the opinion of J.D. Michaelis more probable, who (Spicileg. 2, 60, 161) refers the name to the Moon coast, or Mount of the Moon, in the neighborhood of Hadramaut (Hazarmaveth), not far from Shorma (Edrisi, p. 26, 27). Pococke has some remarks on the subject of El-Ltt, which the reader may consult (Spec. Hist. Arab. p. 90); and also Sir G. Wilkinson, in his notes to Herodotus (ed. Rawlinson, 2, 402, footnote, and Essay 1 to bk. 3): he seems to be wrong, however, in saying that the Arabic awel,’ first’ [correctly, awwal], is related to , or Allah, etc. and that Alitta and Mylitta are Shemitic names derived from weled, walada, to bear children’ (Essay 1, p. 537). The comparison of Alitta and Mylitta is also extremely doubtful; and probably Herodotus assimilated the former name to the latter. Indeed, Jerah has not been satisfactorily identified with the name of any Arabian place or tribe, though a fortress (and probably an old town, like the numerous fortified places in the Yemen, of the old Himyerite kingdom) named Yerkh is mentioned as belonging to the district of the Nijjd (Marsid, s.v. Yerkh), which is in Mahreh, at the extremity of the Yemen (Kms). See ARABIA.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Jerah
(“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.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Jerah
JERAH.Mentioned in the genealogies of Gen 10:26 and 1Ch 1:20 as a son of Joktan. Probably, in analogy with other names in this connexion, Jerah is to be taken as the designation of an Arabian tribe. The Arabic geographers refer to places named Warkh, Yurkh, and Yarch, with any one of which it might be identified. On the other hand, in Hebrew the word signifies new moon; it may therefore be the translation of a totemic clan-name. In fact, Bochart pointed out that sons of the moon is a patronymic still found in Arabia.
W. M. Nesbit.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Jerah
The son of Joktan. (Gen 10:26) His name is borrowed perhaps from Jerah, the moon.
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Jerah
jera (, yerah): A son of Joktan (Gen 10:26 parallel 1Ch 1:20). No district Jerah has been discovered. However, Yurakh in Yemen and Yarah in Hijaz are places named by the Arabic geographers. The fact that the word in Hebrew means moon has led to the following suggestions: the Banu Hilal (sons of the new moon) in the North of Yemen; Ghubb el-Kamar (the bay of the moon), Jebel el-Kamar (the mountains of the moon) in Eastern Hadramant. But in Southern Arabia worship of the moon has caused the word to bulk largely in place-names.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Jerah
[Je’rah]
Son of Joktan, of the family of Shem. Gen 10:26; 1Ch 1:20.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Jerah
H3392
Son of Joktan.
Gen 10:26; 1Ch 1:20
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Jerah
Je’rah. (the moon). The fourth, in order, of the sons of Joktan, Gen 10:26; 1Ch 1:20, and the progenitor of a tribe of southern Arabia.