Nahor

Birthplace: Ur of the Chaldees

Father: Terah

Married to: Milcah, Reumah

Children: Thahash, Chesed, Bethuel, Maachah, Huz, Hazo, Jidlaph, Tebah, Pildash, Kemuel, Buz, Gaham

Siblings: Abraham, Haran, Sarah

Mentioned in 10 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.

Where Nahor is mentioned

  • Genesis 11:26–29

    26 When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

    27 This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

    28 During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

    29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

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  • Genesis 22:20–21

    20 Some time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:

    21 Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),

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  • Genesis 22:23

    And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.

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  • Genesis 24:15

    Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.

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  • Genesis 24:24

    She replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”

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  • Genesis 24:47

    Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

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  • Genesis 29:5

    “Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.

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  • Genesis 31:53

    May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

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