Peleg
Sign in to savePeleg (, in pausa , "division"; ) is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two sons of Eber, an ancestor of the Ishmaelites and the Israelites, according to the Generations of Noah in and .
Key facts
- Person.name
- Peleg
- Person.image
- Paleg.jpg
- Person.image_size
- 225px
- Person.caption
- Peleg imagined in the 1553 Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum
- Person.birth_date
- 2355 BCE (the time when the earth was divided)
- Person.birth_place
- Ur, Sumer(present-day southern Iraq)
- Person.death_date
- 2116 BCE (aged 239)
- Person.parents
- Eber
- Person.children
- Reu and others
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- present in work
- Genesis 10
- date of birth
- 2004-00-00
- date of death
- 1765-00-00
- name in native language
- פלג
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- In Scriptures
- "The earth was divided"
- Popularity of the name
- In popular culture
- References
- External links
Peleg (, in pausa , "division"; ) is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two sons of Eber, an ancestor of the Ishmaelites and the Israelites, according to the Generations of Noah in and .
== In Scriptures == Peleg's son was Reu, born when Peleg was thirty, and he had other sons and daughters. According to the Hebrew Bible, Peleg lived to the age of 239 years, () (up to when Terah was 118).
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