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Genesis 11:24

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 11:24 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Genesis 11:24 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/genesis/11/24.

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Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, then he fathered Terah.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And Nahor liued nine and twentie yeeres, and begate Terah.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And Nahor liveth nine and twenty years, and begetteth Terah.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Nahor lives twenty-nine years [[or seventy-nine years]], and begets Terah.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    When Nahor had live twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, then he fathered Terah.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    When Nahor was 29, he had Terah.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah.

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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is תָּֽרַח Terah H8646 — appearing just 13 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

  • תָּֽרַח Terah H8646

Shared distinctive vocabulary

תָּֽרַח Terah H8646 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 3 nouns
  • 2 adjectives
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • וַיְחִ֣י Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיּ֖וֹלֶד Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 10 words from the Hebrew and 11 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 8 Hebrew tokens and 10 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

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Topical passages linked to Genesis 11:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Luke 3:34 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,
  • Joshua 24:2 Joshua said to all the people, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Genesis 11:24 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיְחִ֣י נָח֔וֹר תֵּ֥שַׁע וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת תָּֽרַח

Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 11:24 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ζάω ναχωρ ἔτος ἑβδομήκοντα ἐννέα καί γεννάω ὁ θαρα

And Nachor lived one hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וַחֲיָא נָחוֹר עֶשְׂרִין וּתְשַׁע שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד יָת תָּרַח

    And Nachor lived twenty and nine years, and begat Terach.

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וַחֲיָא נָחוֹר עַשְרִין וּתְשַׁע שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד יַת תָּרַח

    And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begat Terah.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Genesis 11:24 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Gen 11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

Ver. 24. And begat Terah.] Who also at first "served other gods, beyond the flood". {Jos 24:2}

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

24. Terah] The father of Abram. The name has not yet been clearly identified with any locality, or tribe.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And Abram and Nahor took them wives,.... Very probably after the death of their elder brother Haran, whose daughters they married, at least one of them did, and some think both:

the name of Abraham's wife was Sarai: it is not said whose daughter she was, unless she is the same with Iscah, the daughter of Haran, and so had two names, Iscah her name before marriage, Sarai after it, Abram calling her "my mistress", as "Sarai" signifies, as she called him my lord: so the Targum of Jonathan, Iscah, this is Sarai; in like manner Jarchi, Baal Hatturim, and other Jewish writers (f), take them to be the same; but according to Gen 20:12 Sarai should be the daughter of Terah, the father of Abraham, by another woman; and so the Arabic writers (g) say,"the mother of Abraham died, whose name was Juna; and Terah married another wife, whose name was Lahazib; she bore him Sarah, whom Abraham afterwards married:"

and the name of Nahor's wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah: so that Nahor married his brother's daughter, which sort of marriage was then allowed of, as formerly that of own brothers and sisters, but afterwards was strictly forbidden in the Levitical law: this account is given of Nahor's wife, as Aben Ezra observes, to show the pedigree of Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah: some think, as before observed, that Abram married the other daughter of his brother Haran, Iscah, and that she is the same with Sarai; and indeed, without supposing that, it is difficult to conceive for what reason this should be observed, that Haran, the father of Milcah, was also the father of Iscah; and if Sarai is not Iscah, no account is given by Moses of her descent, which may seem strange; and it can hardly be thought he would omit it, when it must be so agreeable to his people to know from whom they descended, both by the father's and mother's side.

(f) Bereshit Rabba, sect. 38. fol. 33. 3. 4. (g) Ut supra, (Elmacinus, p. 31. Patricides, p. 17.) apud Hottinger. p. 281.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Nahor was the first patriarch who fell to idolatry.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Vers. 24, 25. And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah. Terach, or turning, tarrying; from tarach, an unused Chaldaean root meaning to delay (Gesenius); singularly appropriate to his future character and history, from which probably the name reverted to him. Ewald renders Terach by "migration, considering Tarach = arach, to stretch out. And Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years (148 in all, the shortest liver among the postdiluvian patriarchs), and begat sons and daughters.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

The records in Genesis 11:12-25 have the same format. See how you translated them in Genesis 11:12-13. (See: How to Translate Names and Numbers)

Abram, Nahor, and Haran

We do not know the birth order of his sons.

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Abraham

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Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Terach (“Terah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Terah” (Terach) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. The word “Terah” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
  3. Genesis 11:25 shares the word «Terah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. The verb «וַיְחִ֣י» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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