nachor · Nahor

What it means

nachor (נָחוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Nahor”.

The name of Abraham's grandfather and of one of his brothers; also the town where his brother's family lived.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×16
• Joshua×1
• 1 Chronicles×1

• Genesis 11:22

  Serug lived thirty years and fathered Nahor.

• Genesis 11:23

  After he fathered Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 11:24

  Nahor lived twenty-nine years and fathered Terah.

• Genesis 11:25

  After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 11:26

  Terah lived seventy years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

• Genesis 11:27

  Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

• Genesis 11:29

  Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.

• Genesis 22:20

  After these things it was told to Abraham, saying, “Look, Milcah too has borne sons to Nahor your brother:

• Genesis 22:23

  Bethuel fathered Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

• Genesis 24:10

  The servant took ten camels from the camels of his lord and went, with all kinds of good things of his lord in his hand. He rose and went to Aram-naharaim, to the city of Nahor.

• Genesis 24:15

  It happened, before he had finished speaking, that, look, Rebekah was coming out, who was born to Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her jar on her shoulder.

• Genesis 24:24

  She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”

• Genesis 24:47

  Then I asked her and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her hands.

• Genesis 29:5

  He said to them, “Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.”

• Genesis 31:53

  May the Elohim of Abraham and the Elohim of Nahor judge between us, the Elohim of their father.” And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

• Joshua 24:2

  And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: ‘Beyond the River Euphrates your fathers lived long ago, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods.

• 1 Chronicles 1:26

  Serug, Nahor, Terah,

And 1 more times.