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Helah

Woman living at the time of Divided Monarchy

Helah was one of the two wives of Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, from the tribe of Judah.

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Helah is mentioned in the genealogy of Judah in 1 Chronicles as one of the two wives of Ashhur, the father of Tekoa. Ashhur's other wife was Naarah (1Ch.4.5). Helah gave birth to Zereth, Izhar, Ethnan, and Koz (1Ch.4.7). No further information is provided about Helah in the Bible. (1Ch.4.5,7).

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Ashhur

Bible dictionary

Helah Easton Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Rust, (1 Chr. 4:5, 7), one of the wives of Ashur.

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Helah Smith Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863)

(rust), one of the two wives of Ashur, father of Tekoa. (1 Chronicles 4:5)

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Helah Hastings Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible (1898)

HE'LAH (rust), a wife of Ashur, 1 Chr 4:5.

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Helah Schaff Schaff’s Dictionary of the Bible

HE'LAH (rust), a wife of Ashur, 1 Chr 4:5.

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Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.

Where Helah appears

2 verses in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H2458

1 Chronicles2

Names, family links and references: STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Short descriptions were drafted with AI assistance by STEPBible. Family links follow STEPBible’s scholarly decisions where genealogies are ambiguous.