Arpachschad
Arpachschad (also Arpaksad ; Hebrew אַרְפַּכְשַׁד; According to the Book of Genesis of the Bible, "healer" was the son of Shem and the grandson of Noah (cf. Genesis 10.22.24 EU , 11.10-13 EU ; 1 Chr 1.17-18 EU ).
family tree
Arpachschad is said to have been born two years after the flood , when his father was just 100 years old. His brothers were Elam (forefather of the Elamites ), Aschur , Lud and Aram , his son was called Schelach (sometimes also Salah). He is an ancestor of Abraham and was seen by Josephus and others as the ancestor of the Chaldeans .
The name is said to have survived in the province of Arrapachitis in northern Assyria . According to Soggin, however, it is supposed to be a non-Semitic word derived from the Ugaritic arraphana .
literature
- Gustav Baur: History of the Old Testament Prophecies. Giessen 1861
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Text in Genesis: When Shem was 100 years old, he begat Arpachschad. That was two years after the great flood. 11 After that he lived another 500 years and had other sons and daughters. 12-25 When Arpachschad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelach and lived 403 years after that. from archive link ( Memento from April 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ J. Alberto Soggin: The Book of Genesis. Comment. Darmstadt 1997, p. 170.