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# נָחוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5152

**Nahor** — used 18 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Nahor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5152/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָחוֹר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5152/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (connexion with √ obscure);— father of Teraḥ Gn 11:22, 23, 24, 25 (all P), 1 Ch 1:26. son of Teraḥ and brother of Abr. Gn 11:26, 27 (P), v 29(×2); 22:20, 23; 24:15, 24, 47 cf. 29:5 (all J), Jos 24:2 (E); עִיר נ׳ Gn 24:10 (J); אֶלֹהֵי נ׳ 31:53 (E).—𝔊 always Ναχωρ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Nahor (11); of Nahor (7).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.26/#tree)

שְׂר֥וּג נָח֖וֹר תָּֽרַח׃

*Word for word:* Serug Nahor Terah

*JPS 1917:* Serug, Nahor, Terah;

[Genesis 11:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.22/#tree)

וַיְחִ֥י שְׂר֖וּג שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת־נָחֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and he.lived Serug thirty year\[s\] and he.fathered (et) Nahor

*JPS 1917:* And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5152.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5152/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).