Person · 1819–2049 AM · 1942 BCE — 1712 BCE
Serug שְׂרוּג
son of Reu, grandfather of Terach
"And Reu lived thirty-two years and begot Serug" (Bereshit 11:20).
A note on translation belongs here. The Hebrew says that after Nachor was born Serug lived two hundred years—מָאתַיִם שָׁנָה. The Russian translation on our own pages reads "three hundred"; we count by the Hebrew, and hence the year 2049.
He died when Abraham was already a grown man—great-grandfather and great-grandson lived side by side for a hundred and one years.
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.