Nahor
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- This article is about Nahor, son of Terah. See also Nahor (son of Serug).
Meaning: snorting
A son of Terah, and elder brother of Abraham (Gen 11:26f, Josh 24:2, R.V.). He married Milcah, the daughter of his brother Haran, and remained in the land of his nativity on the east of the river Euphrates at Haran (Gen 11:27ff). A correspondence was maintained between the family of Abraham in Canaan and the relatives in the old ancestral home at Haran till the time of Jacob. When Jacob fled from Haran all intercourse between the two branches of the family came to an end (Gen 31:55). His grand-daughter Rebekah became Isaac's wife (Gen 24:67).
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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 11:31), 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). Nahor was the progenitor of twelve Aramean tribes through his twelve sons, of whom eight were born to him by his wife Milcah (Huz, Buz, Kemuel, Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel) and four by his concubine Reumah (Tebah, Gaham, Thahash, and Maachah) (Gen 22:20ff). Nahor is mentioned on two other occasions. "The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor" (Gen 31:53) was invoked by Jacob at his meeting with Laban; and "Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor," is referred to in Josh 24:2. Both passages show that Nahor was an idolater and that his cult was followed by his descendants, the Arameans.
