Milcah
Sign in to saveMilcah (, related to the Hebrew word for "queen") was the daughter of Haran and the wife of Nahor, according to the genealogies of Genesis. She is identified as the mother of Bethuel and grandmother of Rebecca and Laban in biblical tradition, and some texts of the Midrash have identified her as Sarahs sister.
Key facts
- Person.name
- Milcah
- Person.birth_place
- Ur Kaśdim, Kaldea, Sumer(present-day southern Iraq)
- Person.other_names
- Milkāh
- Person.spouse
- Nahor
- Person.parents
- Haran
- Person.relatives
- Lot (brother), Iscah (sister), Abraham (uncle), Nahor (uncle)
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- Sister of Sarah
- Ancestor of Rebecca
- Marriage to Nahor and descendants
- Incest
- See also
- References
Milcah (, related to the Hebrew word for "queen") was the daughter of Haran and the wife of Nahor, according to the genealogies of Genesis. She is identified as the mother of Bethuel and grandmother of Rebecca and Laban in biblical tradition, and some texts of the Midrash have identified her as Sarahs sister.
==Sister of Sarah== One of the Yahwist (contested) passages from Genesis identifies Haran as the father of Iscah and Milcah. Some rabbinic texts within the Midrashic tradition have identified the aforementioned Iscah as Sarah. According to the Babylonian Talmud, Rabbi Isaac Nappaha, who was one of the Israeli rabbis, said that Iscah and Sarah were the same person: "And why was she called Iscah? Because she saw through the Holy Spirit".