נָחוֹר
Nahor
BDB lists 3 entries for ‘Nahor’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H5152 appears in the Book of Genesis — 15 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis
- Genesis 11:22 נָחֽוֹר n Proper Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
- Genesis 11:23 נָח֖וֹר n Proper Serug lived after he became the father of Nahor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:24 נָח֔וֹר n Proper Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
- Genesis 11:25 נָח֗וֹר n Proper Nahor lived after he became the father of Terah one hundred nineteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:26 נָח֖וֹר n Proper Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
- Genesis 11:27 נָח֖וֹר n Proper Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.
- Genesis 11:29 וְ/נָח֛וֹר נָחוֹר֙ conj + n Proper n Proper Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.
- Genesis 22:20 לְ/נָח֥וֹר prep + n Proper It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
- Genesis 22:23 לְ/נָח֖וֹר prep + n Proper Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
- Genesis 24:10 נָחֽוֹר n Proper The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
- Genesis 24:15 נָח֖וֹר n Proper It happened, before he had done speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.
- Genesis 24:24 לְ/נָחֽוֹר prep + n Proper She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."
- Genesis 24:47 נָח֔וֹר n Proper I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare to him.' I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.
- Genesis 29:5 נָח֑וֹר n Proper He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."
- Genesis 31:53 נָחוֹר֙ n Proper The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
נחור — transliterated Nâchôwr — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Nahor.” More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Genesis. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 17 verses — uncommon. Debuting at Genesis 11:22, it then recurs through the corpus. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5152 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 17
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 17 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,612
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,612 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 17 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 15 verses 88%
- Joshua 1 verse 6%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 6%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 17 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 15 verses · 88%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 6%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 6%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Nahor 15×, Nahor's 2×
- American Standard Version: Nahor 18×
- Berean Standard Bible: Nahor 16×, Nahor’s 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Nahor 18×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5152 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5152 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5152 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5152 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. father of Teraḥ Gn 11:22, 23, 24, 25 (all P), 1 Ch 1:26. e.g. Genesis 11:22
- 2. 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. e.g. Genesis 11:26
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. (connexion with √ obscure);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נחר (nachar) (H5170) — snorting.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H5152 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נָח֖וֹר | Noun, Proper | Genesis 11:23 | 5 |
| נָח֑וֹר | Noun, Proper | Genesis 29:5 | 2 |
| נָח֔וֹר | Noun, Proper | Genesis 11:24 | 2 |
| נָחֽוֹר | Noun, Proper | Genesis 11:22 | 2 |
| נָחוֹר֙ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 11:29 | 2 |
| וְ/נָח֛וֹר | Noun, Proper | Genesis 11:29 | 1 |
| לְ/נָח֖וֹר | Noun, Proper | Genesis 22:23 | 1 |
| לְ/נָח֥וֹר | Noun, Proper | Genesis 22:20 | 1 |
| לְ/נָחֽוֹר | Noun, Proper | Genesis 24:24 | 1 |
| נָח֗וֹר | Noun, Proper | Genesis 11:25 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5152, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Nahor). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Snorting. (1.) The father of Terah, who was the father of Abraham (Gen. 11:22-25; Luke 3:34).
(2.) A son of Terah, and elder brother of Abraham (Gen. 11:26, 27; 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. 11:27-32). 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 (24:67).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(snorting), the name of two persons in the family of Abraham.
+ His grandfather; the son of Serug and father of Terah. (Genesis 11:22-25) (B.C. 2174.) + Grandson of the preceding son of Terah and brother of Abraham and Haran. (Genesis 11:26,27) (B.C. 2000.) The order of the ages of the family of Terah is not improbably inverted in the narrative; in which case Nahor instead of being younger than Abraham, was really older. He married Milcah, the daughter of his brother Haran; and when Abraham and Lot migrated to Canaan, Nahor remained behind in the land of his birth, on the eastern side of the Euphrates.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
hoarse; dry; hot
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 17 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 17 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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