Father of Terah, and grandfather to Abraham. (Gen. xi. 24.) Probably derived from Charor, choked. Abraham had a brother also of this name. (Gen. xi. 26.)
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.
Nahor, 1
Na´hor (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).
1. Son of Serug, and father of Terah, Gen 11:22-25 Luk 3:34 .\par 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 .\par
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.
(See NACHOR.)
Nahor (nâ’hôr), 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.
[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.
NAHOR.—Grandfather of Abraham, named in our Lord’s genealogy, Luk 3:34.
By: Emil G. Hirsch, M. Seligsohn
1. Son of Serug; father of Terah and, consequently, grandfather of Abraham. He is said to have lived one hundred and forty-eight years (Gen. xi. 22-25; I Chron. i. 26).
2. Son of Terah and brother of Abraham and Haran. He married the latter's daughter Milcah (Gen. xi. 26-27, 29). Joseph Halévy ("Recherches Bibliques," i. 328) derives the name of Nahor from the Assyrian "Niḥaru" (= "cachalot"); a king of this name occurs in the prism inscription of Esarhaddon (col. iv., line 21). Although it is not stated that Nahor emigrated with his father and brother from Ur of the Chaldees (comp. Gen. xi. 31), yet from the fact that Haran is called "the city of Nahor" (comp. Gen. xxiv. 10, xxvii. 43) it may be inferred that Nahor took part in the emigration and settled at Haran (comp. Halévy, l.c. p. 303; see also Haran). Nahor was the progenitor of twelve Aramean tribes through his twelve sons, of whom eight were born to him by his wife Milcah and four by his concubine Reumah (Gen. xxii. 20-24). Nahor is mentioned on two other occasions. "The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor" (Gen. xxxi. 53) was invoked by Jacob at his meeting with Laban; and "Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor," is referred to in Josh. xxiv. 2. Both passages show that Nahor was an idolater and that his cult was followed by his descendants, the Arameans.
E. G. H. M. Sel.
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 Re’umah 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 Aramæar tribes were descended. While Abraham appears as the common ancestor of the Israelites and Edomites, Nahor is represented as the father of the Aramæans.
W. F. Boyd.
(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.”