Nahor

Nahor ( נָחוֹר ) are two mentioned by name in the Old Testament men.

Nahor, Terah's father

Nahor was the son of Serug, and became the father at the age of 29 years, Terah, the father of the Patriarch Abraham. Nahor is after that 119 years have lived and fathered more children.

Nahor, Terah's son

According to Gen 11:26 Terah the son of Nahor next Abram has also got Haran, and another son, to whom he gave the name of his father, to Nahor,. This Nahor took a woman named Milka (Gen. 11,29 EU), who was a daughter of his brother Haran. (That Nahor married his niece, which was not allowed by the law of Moses later. ) After gene from 22.20 to 22 Nahor had eight sons Milcah. Their names were: Uz, bus, Kemuel Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph and Bethuel. Uz was later to become the progenitor and founder of the land of Uz; of Kemuel came later from the Syrians.

After Gen 22:24 And Nahor also has the concubine reuma the sons Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maacah, becoming the progenitor of twelve Aramean tribes in the region of Mesopotamia.

As a father Bethuel the Aramean Nahor, the grandfather of Rebekah, the wife of Isaac and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

The Abraham 's brother Nahor in Genesis is not with those called 11.31, leaving with her father Terah the city of Ur, in order to draw up the Euphrates. Nevertheless, the preliminary end of this journey, Harran, later "the city of Nahor ", named as the home of Nahor (Gen. 25,20 ). There sends to his relatives in the old home town of Abraham his servant, to woo a wife for his son Isaac.

Filming

In Joseph Sargent's film adaptation of the Bible "The Bible - Abraham " from 1994, the Briton Kevin McNally embodied Nahor Abraham's brother.

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