Person · 1849–1997 AM · 1912 BCE — 1764 BCE
Nachor son of Serug נָחוֹר בֶּן שְׂרוּג
father of Terach, grandfather of Abraham
"And Serug lived thirty years and begot Nachor" (Bereshit 11:22). He lived a hundred and forty-eight years—the shortest span in the line, half his father's.
He is not to be confused with his own grandson, Nachor the brother of Abraham and son of Terach. Grandfather and grandson bear the same name, which is ordinary in the Torah's genealogies; in this reference they are kept apart.
He died in 1997, a year before Abraham turned fifty.
On the timeline
1658 · 2103 BCEThe Line of Shem: Arpachshad, Ever, Peleg and the Division of the Earth1657 · 2104 BCEThe Sons of Noah and the Spread of the Nations
Related
Sources
Tanakh
- Bereshit 11:10–26 — the ten generations from Shem to Abraham: age at each son's birth and the years lived after
- I Chronicles 1:17–27 — the same line from Shem to Abram, repeated in the Writings
Basis: stated in the Tanakh.