Genesis 11:24
New International Version
When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.

New Living Translation
When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.

English Standard Version
When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah.

Berean Standard Bible
When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.

King James Bible
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

New King James Version
Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.

New American Standard Bible
Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and fathered Terah;

NASB 1995
Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah;

NASB 1977
And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah;

Legacy Standard Bible
Nahor lived 29 years and became the father of Terah;

Amplified Bible
When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah.

Christian Standard Bible
Nahor lived 29 years and fathered Terah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Nahor lived 29 years and fathered Terah.

American Standard Version
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

Contemporary English Version
When Nahor was 29, he had a son named Terah.

English Revised Version
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Nahor was 29 years old when he became the father of Terah.

Good News Translation
When Nahor was 29 years old, he had a son, Terah;

International Standard Version
When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah.

Majority Standard Bible
When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.

NET Bible
When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.

New Heart English Bible
Nahor lived seventy-nine years, and became the father of Terah.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah.

World English Bible
Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And Nahor lives twenty-nine years [[or seventy-nine years]], and begets Terah.

Young's Literal Translation
And Nahor liveth nine and twenty years, and begetteth Terah.

Smith's Literal Translation
And Nahor will live nine and twenty years, and will beget Terah.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And so Nahor lived for twenty-nine years, and then he conceived Terah.

New American Bible
When Nahor was twenty-nine years old, he begot Terah.

New Revised Standard Version
When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah;
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah;

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And Nakhor lived twenty and nine years and begot Terakh:
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Genealogy from Shem to Abram
23And after he had become the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters. 24When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah. 25And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.…

Cross References
Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 10:21
And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.

Genesis 9:28-29
After the flood, Noah lived 350 years. / So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.

Genesis 25:7-8
Abraham lived a total of 175 years. / And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.

Genesis 21:5
Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

Genesis 35:28-29
And Isaac lived 180 years. / Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Genesis 50:26
So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.

Exodus 7:7
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.

1 Chronicles 1:24-27
So from Shem came Arphaxad, Shelah, / Eber, Peleg, Reu, / Serug, Nahor, Terah, ...

Luke 3:34-36
the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, / the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, / the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

Matthew 1:1-2
This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham: / Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.

Hebrews 11:11-12
By faith Sarah, even though she was barren and beyond the proper age, was enabled to conceive a child, because she considered Him faithful who had promised. / And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

Romans 4:19
Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.

Acts 7:2-4
And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, / and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’ / So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.


Treasury of Scripture

And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

A.

Luke 3:34
Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor,

Thara.

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Genesis 11
1. One language in the world.
2. The building of Babel.
5. It is interrupted by the confusion of tongues, and the builders dispersed.
10. The generations of Shem.
27. The generations of Terah, the father of Abram.
31. Terah, with Abram and Lot, move from Ur to Haran.














When Nahor was 29 years old
The name "Nahor" is of Hebrew origin, נָחוֹר (Nachor), which means "snorting" or "snorer." Nahor is a significant figure in the genealogical line leading to Abraham, and his mention here underscores the continuity of God's plan through specific family lines. The age of 29, while seemingly mundane, reflects the precision and care with which genealogies were recorded in ancient times, emphasizing the importance of lineage and heritage in the biblical narrative. This detail also serves to anchor the account in a historical context, reminding readers of the real, lived experiences of these patriarchs.

he became the father of Terah
The phrase "became the father" is translated from the Hebrew word יָלַד (yalad), which means "to beget" or "to bring forth." This term is used throughout the genealogies in Genesis to denote the continuation of a family line, highlighting the importance of progeny and legacy in the biblical worldview. Terah, whose name in Hebrew תֶּרַח (Terach) may mean "delay" or "wanderer," is a pivotal figure as the father of Abram (later Abraham), who is central to God's covenantal promises. The mention of Terah here sets the stage for the unfolding of God's redemptive plan through Abraham and his descendants, illustrating the divine orchestration of history and the fulfillment of God's promises through specific individuals and families.

Verses 24, 25. - And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah. Terach, or turning, tarrying; from tarach, an unused Chaldaean root meaning to delay (Gesenius); singularly appropriate to his future character and history, from which probably the name reverted to him. Ewald renders Terach by "migration, considering Tarach = arach, to stretch out. And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years (148 in all, the shortest liver among the postdiluvian patriarchs), and begat sons and daughters.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When Nahor
נָח֔וֹר (nā·ḥō·wr)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5152: Nochor

was
וַיְחִ֣י (way·ḥî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2421: To live, to revive

29
תֵּ֥שַׁע (tê·ša‘)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 8672: Nine, ninth

years old,
שָׁנָ֑ה (šā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141: A year

he became the father of
וַיּ֖וֹלֶד (way·yō·w·leḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

Terah.
תָּֽרַח׃ (tā·raḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8646: Terah -- Abraham's father, also a place in the desert


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