Nâchôwr — H5152

Definition

masculine proper noun

Nochor, the name of the grandfather and a brother of Abraham

1. Nahor = "snorting"
2. son of Serug, father of Terah, and grandfather of Abraham
3. son of Terah and brother of Abraham

Usually translated as

Nahor

Origin

from the same as H5170; snorer

• Same as Nachar (H5170)

Greek equivalents

• Nachṓr (G3493)

Occurrences

Nâchôwr occurs 18 times in 17 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (15), Joshua (1), 1 Chronicles (1)

• Genesis 11:22 — And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor (נָחֽוֹר):
• Genesis 11:23 — And Serug lived after he begat Nahor (נָח֖וֹר) two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
• Genesis 11:24 — And Nahor (נָח֔וֹר) lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
• Genesis 11:25 — And Nahor (נָח֗וֹר) lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
• Genesis 11:26 — And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor (נָח֖וֹר), and Haran.
• Genesis 11:27 — Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor (נָח֖וֹר), and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
• Genesis 11:29 — And Abram and Nahor (וְנָח֛וֹר) took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
• Genesis 11:29 — And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s (נָחוֹר֙) wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
• Genesis 22:20 — And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor (לְנָח֥וֹר);
• Genesis 22:23 — And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor (לְנָח֖וֹר), Abraham’s brother.
• Genesis 24:10 — And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor (נָחֽוֹר).
• Genesis 24:15 — And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor (נָח֖וֹר), Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
• Genesis 24:24 — And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor (לְנָחֽוֹר).
• Genesis 24:47 — And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s (נָח֔וֹר) son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
• Genesis 29:5 — And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor (נָח֑וֹר)? And they said, We know him.
• Genesis 31:53 — The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor (נָחוֹר֙), the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
• Joshua 24:2 — And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor (נָח֑וֹר): and they served other gods.
• 1 Chronicles 1:26 — Serug, Nahor (נָח֖וֹר), Terah,