Ketura

Ketura ( Hebrew קְטוּרָה; Greek Χεττούρα ; Latin Cetthurae ) is a woman's name meaning " incense ".

According to the biblical story in Genesis in the Old Testament, Ketura was the second wife of Abraham ( Gen 25.1  EU ).

With her, Abraham had six other sons: Simran, Jokschan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Schuach. He sent them away so that they could not dispute Isaac's inheritance. They became the progenitors of six Arab tribes that settled in the east and south of Israel .

The sons of Jokshan are Saba and Dedan, and the sons of Midian are Efa [a] and Afer, and Enoch and Abida and Aldaa.

According to the Midrash , Ketura is identical to Hagar .

literature

• Marion panting: Ketura or everything a question of sequence. In: Marion Keuchen, Helga Kuhlmann, Harald Schroeter-Wittke (eds.): The best supporting roles. 50 portraits of biblical marginal figures. Leipzig 2006, pp. 81–87.
• Stephen Motyer: 444 People of the Bible. Stuttgart 1999, p. 9.

Web links

• Ernst Axel Knauf :  Ketura. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.