Nahor

Nahor ( Hebrew נָחוֹר) are two men named in the Old Testament .

Nahor, Terach's father

Nahor was a son of Serug and fathered Terah , the father of the future patriarch Abraham, at the age of 29 . Nahor is said to have lived for 119 years and fathered more children. ( Gen 11,22-25  EU )

Nahor, son of Terach

According to Gen 11.26  EU , Terach , the son of Nahor, had next to Abram also Haran and another son, whom he gave the name of his father, Nahor. This Nahor took a wife named Milka ( Gen 11.29  EU ), who was a daughter of his brother Haran. (So ​​Nahor married his niece, which was not later forbidden in the Law of Moses.) According to Gen 22: 20–22  EU , Nahor had eight sons with Milka. Their names were: Uz , Bus , Kemuël , Kesed , Haso, Pildasch , Jidlaf and Betuël . Uz was later to become the progenitor and founder of the country of Uz ; the Arameans later descended from Kemuël .

According to Gen 22.24  EU , Nahor also had the sons Tebach , Gaham , Tahasch and Maacha with his concubine Rëuma and thus became the progenitor of twelve Aramaic tribes in the area of Mesopotamia .

As the father of the Aramean Betuël, Nahor becomes the grandfather of Rebekah , Isaac's wife and sister of the Aramean Laban .

The Abraham brother Nahor is not mentioned in Gen 11.31  EU with those who, together with their father Terach, leave the city of Ur to go up the Euphrates . Nevertheless, the provisional end of this journey, Harran , later called “the city of Nahor”, is called Nahor's home ( Gen 25.20  EU ). Abraham sends his servant there to his relatives in the old homeland to woo a wife for his son Isaac.

filming

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