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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 .

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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Wikidata facts

Gender
male
Place of birth
Ur
Child
Reu
Father
Eber
Sibling
Joktan
Image
Paleg.jpg
Residence
Mesopotamia
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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
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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • In Scriptures
  • "The earth was divided"
  • Popularity of the name
  • In popular culture
  • References
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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).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peleg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.