Bible Names

Nahor: meaning of the name

Nahor means “hoarse; dry; hot.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Nahor in Hebrew and Greek

נָחוֹר H5152

Nâchôwr (naw-khore') — Nochor, the name of the grandfather and a brother of Abraham

from the same as H5170 (נַחַר); snorer;

People named Nahor in the Bible

Places named Nahor

Nahor in Scripture

“Nahor” appears in 16 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 11:22

    And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

  • Genesis 11:23

    And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

  • Genesis 11:24

    And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

  • Genesis 11:25

    And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

  • Genesis 11:26

    And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

  • Genesis 11:27

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

  • Genesis 11:29

    And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

  • Genesis 22:20

    And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;