Eber
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Eber (; ; ) is an ancestor of the Ishmaelites and the Israelites according to the Generations of Noah in the Book of Genesis () and the Books of Chronicles ().
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- Person.image
- Eber.jpg
- Person.image_size
- 200px
- Person.caption
- Eber imagined in the 1553 Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum
- Person.parents
- Selah
- Person.children
- PelegJoktan
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- prophet of Islam
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Ur
- Child
- Joktan
- Father
- Salah
- Image
- Eber.jpg
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- present in work
- Genesis 10
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- date of birth
- 2038-00-00
- date of death
- 1574-00-00
- different from
- male pig
- name in native language
- עֵבֶר
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Lineage
- Name
- Hebrew
- In Islam
- See also
- References
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Eber (; ; ) is an ancestor of the Ishmaelites and the Israelites according to the Generations of Noah in the Book of Genesis () and the Books of Chronicles ().
== Lineage == Eber (Hebrew: Ever) was a great-grandson of Noah's son Shem and the father of Peleg, born when Eber was 34 years old, and of Joktan. He was the son of Shelah, a distant ancestor of Abraham. According to the Hebrew Bible, Eber died at the age of 464.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eber” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.