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Tebah

Man living at the time of the Patriarchs

Tebah was a son of Abraham's brother Nahor and his concubine Reumah.

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Tebah is mentioned in Gen.22.24 as a son of Nahor and his concubine Reumah. Nahor was Abraham's brother, making Tebah Abraham's nephew. Tebah is listed along with his brothers Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. No other details are provided about Tebah's life or descendants. As a son of Nahor, he was born in Mesopotamia, where Abraham and his family originated.

Family

Father
Nahor
Mother
Reumah

Bible dictionary

Tebah Smith Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863)

(slaughter), eldest of the sons of Nahor by his concubine Reumah. (Genesis 22:24) (B.C. 1872.)

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Tebah Hitchcock Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

murder; butchery; guarding of the body; a cook

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Tebah Hastings Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible (1898)

TE'BAH (slaughter), eldest of the sons of Nahor by his concubine Reumah. Gen 22:24.

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Tebah Schaff Schaff’s Dictionary of the Bible

TE'BAH (slaughter), eldest of the sons of Nahor by his concubine Reumah. Gen 22:24.

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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 Tebah appears

1 verse in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H2875

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