Keturah
Sign in to saveKeturah (, Qəṭūrā, possibly meaning "incense"; ) was a wife and a concubine of the Biblical patriarch Abraham. According to the Book of Genesis, Abraham married Keturah after the death of his first wife, Sarah. Abraham and Keturah had six sons. According to Jewish tradition, she was a descendant of Noah's son Japheth.
Key facts
- Character.relatives
- Sheba (grandson)Dedan (grandson)Ephah (grandson)Epher (grandson)Enoch (grandson)Abida (grandson)Eldaah (grandson)Asshurim (great-grandson)Letushim (great-grandson)Leummim (great-grandson)Sarah (half sister-in-law)Nahor (brother-in-law)Haran (brother-in-law)Terah (father-in-law)
- Character.image
- Venice Haggadah, Family of Abraham.jpg
- Character.caption
- The wives and sons of Abraham, with Keturah standing at the far right with her six sons. From the 1630 Venice Haggadah.
- Character.spouse
- Abraham
- Character.children
- Zimran (son)Jokshan (son)Medan (son)Midian (son)Ishbak (son)Shuah (son)
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Wikidata facts
- Gender
- female
- Spouse
- Abraham
- Child
- Shuah
- Image
- Venice Haggadah, Family of Abraham.jpg
- Said to be same as
- Hagar
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- present in work
- 1 Chronicles 1
- different from
- Ketura
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Relationship with Abraham
- Descendants
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Keturah (, Qəṭūrā, possibly meaning "incense"; ) was a wife and a concubine of the Biblical patriarch Abraham. According to the Book of Genesis, Abraham married Keturah after the death of his first wife, Sarah. Abraham and Keturah had six sons. According to Jewish tradition, she was a descendant of Noah's son Japheth.
One modern commentator on the Hebrew Bible has called Keturah "the most ignored significant person in the Torah". The medieval Jewish commentator Rashi, and some previous rabbinical commentators, related a traditional belief that Keturah was the same person as Hagar, although this idea cannot be found in the biblical text. However, Hagar was Sarah's Egyptian maidservant.
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