BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6389
pe.leg — Peleg
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.25; son of: Eber (H5677); brother of: Joktan (H3355); father of: Reu (H7466) Also named: Phalek (Φάλεκ "Peleg" G5317) § Peleg = "division" son of Eber and brother of Joktan
7 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G5317
Phalek — Peleg
Φάλεκ (T, Rec. Φαλέκ, L, mg., Φάλεγ), ὁ indecl. (Heb. D, Ge 1116), Peleg: Luk.3:35.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5677
e.ver — Eber
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.21; son of: Shelah (H7974); father of: Peleg (H6389) and Joktan (H3355) Also named: Eber (Ἐβέρ "Eber" G1443) § Eber or Heber = "the region beyond" 1) son of Salah, great grandson of Shem, father of Peleg and Joktan 2) a Gadite chief 3) a Benjamite, son of Elpaal and descendant of Sharahaim 4) a Benjamite, son of Shashak 5) a priest in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua
15 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3355
yoq.tan — Joktan
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.25; son of: Eber (H5677); brother of: Peleg (H6389); father of: Almodad (H0486), Sheleph (H8026), Hazarmaveth (H2700), Jerah (H3392), Hadoram (H1913A), Uzal (H0187), Diklah (H1853), Obal (H5745), Abimael (H0039), Sheba (H7614H), Ophir (H0211), Havilah (H2341I) and Jobab (H3103) § Joktan = "smallness" son of Eber and descendant of Shem and patriarch of various Arabian tribes
6 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7466
re.u — Reu
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.11.18; son of: Peleg (H6389); father of: Serug (H8286) Also named: Rhagau (Ῥαγαῦ "Reu" G4466) § Reu = "friend" son of Peleg and an ancestor of Abraham
5 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G557
apelegmos — discredit
ἀπ-ελεγμός, -οῦ, ὁ (ἀπελέγχω, to convict, refute), refutation, disrepute: ἐλθεῖν εἰς ἀ., Act.19:27 (not elsewhere; see MM, see word).† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →Division, one of the sons of Eber; so called because “in his days was the earth divided” (Gen. 10:25). Possibly he may have lived at the time of the dispersion from Babel. But more probably the reference is to the dispersion of the two races which sprang from Eber, the one spreading towards Mesopotamia and Syria, and the other southward into Arabia.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
