Also known as Ragau, Re'u
Reu or Ragau (; ), according to Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, was the son of Peleg and the father of Serug, thus being Abraham's great-great-grandfather and the ancestor of the Israelites and Ishmaelites.
Key facts
- Person.name
- Reu
- Person.image
- Reu.jpg
- Person.caption
- Reu from Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum (1553 CE)
- Person.native_name
- רְעוּ
- Person.native_name_lang
- he
- Person.birth_date
- 1788 AM (Masoretic chronology)
- Person.birth_place
- Ur, Sumer(now in Lower Mesopotamia, Iraq)
- Person.death_date
- 2027 AM (aged 239) (Masoretic chronology)
- Person.parents
- PelegLomna
- Person.children
- Serug, and other sons and daughters
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Wikidata facts
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- present in work
- Book of Jubilees
- date of birth
- 1974-00-00
- date of death
- 1735-00-00
- name in native language
- רעו
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
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- In scriptures
- References
Reu or Ragau (; ), according to Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, was the son of Peleg and the father of Serug, thus being Abraham's great-great-grandfather and the ancestor of the Israelites and Ishmaelites.
== In scriptures == According to the apocryphal Book of Jubilees, Reu is said to have been born to Peleg and Lomna of Shinar at the time when the Tower of Babel was begun.'Behold the children of men have become evil through the wicked purpose of building for themselves a city and a tower in the land of Shinar.'
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