Terah

Who

Key verses

1. Genesis 11:24

   Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.

2. Genesis 11:26

   Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

3. Genesis 11:31

   Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

4. Joshua 24:2

   Joshua said to all the people, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods.

5. 1 Chronicles 1:26

   Serug, Nahor, Terah,

6. Luke 3:34

   the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

Where the Bible names him

Family

Parents

• NNahorLuke 3:34; Genesis 11:24; 1 Chronicles 1:26

Children

• AAbrahamLuke 3:34; Genesis 11:26; 1 Chronicles 1:26–27
• NNahorGenesis 11:26
• HHaranGenesis 11:26

Discussed by

Comments on the verses that name him (8 of 49).

• Origen on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke

  Having related our Lord’s baptism, he next enters upon the generation of the Lord, not bringing it down from the higher to the lower, but beginning with Christ, he carries it up to God Himself. Hence he says, And…

• Gregory of Nazianzus on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke

  We must therefore consider who He was who was baptized, and by whom and when: seeing He was pure, baptized by John, and at a time when His miracles had begun, that we might thence derive the lesson of purifying…

• John Chrysostom on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke

  Or, He waited accomplishing the whole law until that age which takes in every sin, that none might say that He abrogated the law because He was not able to fulfil it.

• A Greek expositor on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke

  For this reason also He came at thirty years to be baptized, to shew that spiritual regeneration makes men perfect as far as regards their spiritual life.

• Bede on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke

  The thrice ten years also which our Saviour had passed when He was baptized might intimate also the mystery of our baptism, because of the faith in the Trinity, and the obedience to the Decalogue.

• Gregory of Nazianzus on Luke 3:23–38 (2)Catena Aurea on Luke

  Still must a child be baptized if necessity demands it. For it is better to be insensibly sanctified, than to pass from this life unsealed. But you will say, Christ is baptized at thirty years old, and He was God,…

• Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke

  Although in truth Christ had no father according to the flesh, yet some fancied he had a father. Hence it follows, As was supposed the son of Joseph.

• Ambrose of Milan on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke

  Rightly as was supposed, since in reality He was not, but was supposed to be so, because Mary who was espoused to Joseph was His mother. But we might doubt why the descent of Joseph is described rather than that of…