Nahor
NAHOR
1. Son of Serug, and father of Terah, Gen 11:22-25 Luk 3:34 .2. Son of Terah, and brother of Abraham and Haran. He married Milcah his niece in Ur of the Chaldees, Gen 11:26,29, but seems to have transferred his residence to Haran, Gen 24:10 27:43. He had twelve sons, and among them Bethuel the father of Rebekah, Gen 22:20-24 .
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Nahor
(Heb. Nachor’, , snorting; Sept. and N.T. : Josephus ; Vulg. Nachor: A.V. ” Nachor,” Jos 24:2; Luk 3:34), the name of two men.
1. Son of Serug, father of Terah, and grandfather of Abraham (Gen 11:22-25; Luk 3:34). He died at the age of 148 years. B.C. 2174.
2. Grandson of the preceding, being a son of Terah, and brother of Abraham and Haran (Gen 11:26; Jos 24:2). The order of the name of Terah is not improbably inverted in the narrative; in which case Nahor, instead of being younger than Abraham, was really older. B.C. ante 2163. He married Milcah, the daughter of his brother Haran; and when Abraham and Lot migrated to Canaan, Nahor remained behind in the land of his birth, on the eastern side of the Euphrates the boundary between the Old and the New World of that early age and gathered his family around him at the sepulchre of his father (Gen 11:27-32; comp. 2Sa 19:37). Coupling this with the statement of Jdt 5:8 and the universal tradition of the East, that Terah’s departure from Ur was a relinquishment of false worship, an additional force is given to the mention of “the god of Nahor” (Gen 31:53) as distinct from the God of Abraham’s descendants. Two generations later Nahor’s family were certainly living at Haran (Gen 28:10; Gen 29:4). Like Jacob, and also like Ishmael, Nahor was the father of twelve sons; and further, as ill the case of Jacob, eight of them were the children of his wife, and four of a concubine, Reumah (Gen 22:21-24). Special care is taken in speaking of the legitimate branch to specify its descent from Milcah “the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.” It was to this pure and unsullied race that Abraham and Rebekah in turn had recourse for wives for their sons. But with Jacob’s flight from Haran the intercourse ceased. The heap of stones which he and “Laban the Syrian” erected on Mount Gilead (Gen 31:46) may be said to have formed at once the tomb of their past connection and the barrier against its continuance. Even at that time a wide variation had taken place not only in their language (Gen 31:47), but, as it would seem, in the Object of their worship. The “God of Nahor” appears as a distinct divinity from the “God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac” (Gen 31:53). Doubtless this was one of the “other gods” which before the call of Abraham were worshipped by the family of Terah, whose images were in Rachel’s possession during the conference on Gilead, and which had to be discarded before Jacob could go into the presence of the “God of Bethel” (Gen 35:2; comp. 31:13). Henceforward the line of distinction between the two families is most sharply drawn (as in the allusion of Jos 24:2), and the descendants of Nahor confine their communications to their own immediate kindred, or to the members of other non-Israelitish tribes, as in the case of Job the man of Uz, and his friends, Elihu the Buzite of the kindred of Ram, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite. Many centuries later David appears to have come into collision sometimes friendly, sometimes the reverse with one or two of the more remote Nahorite tribes. Tibhath, probably identical with Tebah and Maacah. are mentioned in the relation of his wars on the eastern frontier of Israel (1Ch 18:8; 1Ch 19:6); and the mother of Absalom either belonged to or was connected with the latter of the above nations.
No certain traces of the name of Nahor have been recognised in Mesopotamia. Ewald (Geschichte, 1:359) proposes Haditha, a town on the Euphrates just above Hit, and bearing the additional name of el-Naura; also another place, likewise called el-Na’ura, mentioned by some Arabian geographers as lying farther north; and Nachrein, which, however, seems to lie out of Mesopotamia to the east. Others have mentioned Naarda, or Nehardea, a town or district in the neighborhood of the above, celebrated as the site of a college of the Jews (Smith, Dict. of Geogr. s.v. Naarda).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Nahor
snorting. (1.) The father of Terah, who was the father of Abraham (Gen. 11:22-25; Luke 3:34).
(2.) A son of Terah, and elder brother of Abraham (Gen. 11:26, 27; Josh. 24:2, R.V.). He married Milcah, the daughter of his brother Haran, and remained in the land of his nativity on the east of the river Euphrates at Haran (Gen. 11:27-32). A correspondence was maintained between the family of Abraham in Canaan and the relatives in the old ancestral home at Haran till the time of Jacob. When Jacob fled from Haran all intercourse between the two branches of the family came to an end (Gen. 31:55). His grand-daughter Rebekah became Isaac’s wife (24:67).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Nahor
(See NACHOR.)
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Nahor
NAHOR.Grandfather of Abraham, named in our Lords genealogy, Luk 3:34.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Nahor
NAHOR.1. Father of Terah and grandfather of Abra ham (Gen 11:22-25, 1Ch 1:26, Luk 3:34). 2. Grandson of the preceding and brother of Abraham and Haran (Gen 11:25-27 cf. Jos 24:2). He is said to have married Milcah, daughte of Haran (Gen 11:29), and twelve sohs are enumerated eight by Milcah and four by Reumah his concubim (Gen 22:20-24). In Gen 24:10 we read of the city of Nahor i.e. Haran, where Rehekah was found. Laban, in making a covenant with Jacob, swears by the God (of Abraham and the God of Nahor (Gen 31:53). The sons ascribed to Nahor (Buz, Uz, Aram, etc.) are for the most part names of tribes. It has been questioner if Nahor is a historical character at all. Some think we have, instead, the name of a lost tribe once resident in the neighbourhood of Haran, from which the Aramar tribes were descended. While Abraham appears as the common ancestor of the Israelites and Edomites, Nahor is represented as the father of the Aramans.
W. F. Boyd.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Nahor
Father of Terah, and grandfather to Abraham. (Gen 11:24) Probably derived from Charor, choked. Abraham had a brother also of this name. (Gen 11:26)
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Nahor
nahor (, nahor; in the New Testament , Nachor):
(1) Son of Serug and grandfather of Abraham Gen 11:22-25; 1Ch 1:26.
(2) Son of Terah and brother of Abraham Gen 11:26-27, Gen 11:29; Gen 22:20, Gen 22:23; Gen 24:15, Gen 24:24, Gen 24:47; Gen 29:5; Jos 24:2.
A city of Nahor is mentioned in Gen 24:10; the God of Nahor in Gen 31:53. In the King James Version Jos 24:2; Luk 3:34, the name is spelled Nachor.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Nahor
Nahor, 1
Nahor (snorting), or rather Nachor, as in Luk 3:34, son of Serug, and father of Terah, the father of Abraham (Gen 11:22-25).
Nahor, 2
Nahor, grandson of the preceding, is one of the sons of Terah, and brother of Abraham. Nahor espoused Milcah his niece, daughter of his eldest brother Haran (Gen 11:27-29). Nahor did not quit his native place, ‘Ur of the Chaldees,’ when the rest of the family removed to Haran (Gen 11:31); but it would appear that he went thither afterwards, as we eventually find his son Bethuel, and his grandson Laban, established there (Gen 27:43; Gen 29:5).
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Nahor
[Na’hor]
1. Son of Serug, and grandfather of Abraham. Gen 11:22-25; 1Ch 1:26. Called NACHOR in Luk 3:34.
2. Son of Terah and brother of Abraham. Gen 11:26-29; Gen 22:20; Gen 22:23; Gen 24:10-47; Gen 29:5; Gen 31:53. Called NACHOR in Jos 24:2.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Nahor
H5152
1. Grandfather of Abraham:
– General references
Gen 11:22-26; 1Ch 1:26
– In the lineage of Christ
Luk 3:34
2. Brother of Abraham:
– General references
Gen 11:26; Jos 24:2
– Marriage and descendants of
Gen 11:27; Gen 11:29; Gen 22:20-24; Gen 24:15; Gen 24:24
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Nahor
Nahor (n’hr), snorting. 1. One of the patriarchs, father of Terah and grandfather of Abraham. Gen 11:22-25; 1Ch 1:26. He is called Nachor in Luk 3:34, A. V. 2. A son of Terah. It would seem, that he must have accompanied his father to Haran; for it is sometimes styled the city of Nahor. Gen 11:1-32; Gen 26:1-35; Gen 27:1-46; Gen 29:1-35; Gen 22:20-24; Gen 24:10; Gen 24:15; Gen 24:24; Gen 24:47; Gen 29:5; Gen 31:53. He is called Nachor in Jos 24:2, A. V.
Fuente: People’s Dictionary of the Bible
Nahor
Na’hor. (snorting). The name of two persons in the family of Abraham.
1. His grandfather; the son of Serug, and father of Terah. Gen 11:22-25. (B.C. 2174).
2. Grandson of Nahor, 1, son of Terah, and brother of Abraham and Haran. Gen 11:26-27. (B.C. 2000). The order of the ages of the family of Terah is not improbably inverted in the narrative; in which case, Nahor instead of being younger than Abraham, was really older. He married Milcah, the daughter of his brother, Haran; and when Abraham and Lot migrated to Canaan, Nahor remained behind in the land of his birth, on the eastern side of the Euphrates.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
NAHOR
(a) Grandfather of Abraham
Gen 11:22; Gen 11:25; 1Ch 1:26
(b) Brother of Abraham
Gen 11:27; Gen 22:20; Gen 24:15; Gen 31:53
NAHUM, the prophet. See Book of Nahum
Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible
Nahor
son of Terah, and brother of Abraham, Gen 11:26. Neither the year of his birth nor of his death is exactly known. Nahor married Milcah, the daughter of Haran, by whom he had several sons, namely, Huz, Buz, Kemuel, Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel. Nahor fixed his habitation at Haran, which is therefore called the city of Nahor, Gen 11:29; Gen 22:20-22; Gen 24:10.