Luke 3:34

Greek (Tischendorf 8th ed.)

English Translation

the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

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Highlights

2 hapax legomena — only here in the Greek New Testament
2 first appearances in the Greek New Testament

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Θάρα

Thára

G2291

“Terah”

Noun, Proper, indeclinable

Appears 1× in the Greek New Testament
First appears here

Full Thayer's Definition

Origin: of hebrew origin H8646

TDNT: None

Terah = "station" 1. the father of Abraham

About this verse

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10: words
6: distinct lemmas
Gospels: section

Notable vocabulary

2 hapax legomena — words that appear only here in the entire Greek New Testament:

Θάρα Terah G2291
Ναχὼρ Nahor G3493

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Greek New Testament here:

Θάρα Terah G2291
Ναχὼρ Nahor G3493

Shared distinctive vocabulary

Ἰσαὰκ Isaac G2464 occurs in 18 verses of the Greek New Testament. Also found in:

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse:

τοῦ the G3588 ×5

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Luke 3:34 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Genesis 21:3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
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.
Genesis 25:26 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
1 Chronicles 1:24–28 Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah,
1 Chronicles 1:34 Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.
Matthew 1:2 Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.
Acts 7:8 He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

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Commentary

Notes on Luke 3:34 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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Expositor's Greek Testament

ed. W. Robertson Nicoll

Luk 3:34-38 . From Abraham to Adam . Peculiar to Lk., taken from Gen 11:12-26 ; Gen 5:7-32 , as given in the Sept [41] , whence Canaan in Luk 3:36 (instead of חלַשָׁ in Gen 11:12 , in Heb.). It is probable that this part of the genealogy has been added by Lk., and that his interest in it is twofold: (1) universalistic : revealed by running back the genealogy of Jesus to Adam , the father of the human race ; (2) the desire to give emphasis to the Divine origin of Jesus, revealed by the final link in the chain: Adam (son) of God. Adam’s sonship is conceived of as something unique, inasmuch as, like Jesus, he owed his being, not to a human parent, but to the immediate causality of God. By this extension of the genealogy beyond Abraham, and even beyond Adam up to God, the evangelist has deprived it of all vital significance for the original purpose of such tables: to vindicate the Messianic claims of Jesus by showing Him to be the son of David. The Davidic sonship, it is true, remains, but it cannot be vital to the Messiahship of One who is, in the sense of the Gospel, Son of God. It becomes like the moon when the sun is shining. Lk. was probably aware of this.

[41] Septuagint.

This genealogy contains none of those features (references to women, etc. which lend ethical interest to Mt.’s.

The Expositor's Greek Testament, edited by W. Robertson Nicoll (1897–1910) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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Luke, in the Gospels, opens this verse with 10 words (6 distinct Greek lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Thára (“Terah”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Terah” (Thára) shape what this verse is saying?
2 words here appear nowhere else in the Greek New Testament. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
How does Matthew 1:2, which shares the word «Isaac», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “the” (5× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?

Things to notice

2 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Greek New Testament.
2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
“the” occurs 5× in this single verse.
6 distinct Greek lemmas span 10 words in this verse.