Peleg
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Peleg (Hebrew: פּלג, Pẹleḡ; Greek: Φάλεκ, Phalek; "division") (Tammuz 1757 AMJuly 2246 BC
Av 1514 He
Tammuz 1757 AM-Tammuz 1996 AMJuly 2007 BC
Av 1753 He
Tammuz 1996 AM) is the first named son of Eber. He had at least one known brother, Joktan.
When he was 30 years old, he had a son named Reu. He lived for another 209 years and had other sons and daughters.[1] His total life span was thus 239 years2,956.017 mon
87,292.934 da, slightly more than half that of his father and the shortest life span to date in his line.
The name Peleg means "division," and Genesis 10:25 states that "in his time the earth was divided." Georgius Syncellus, as quoted by Ussher, states that the Tower of Babel was built and then abandoned when Peleg was five years old.[2] Some also speculate that in Peleg's time the earth was mapped, or even that some sort of tectonic activity had occured in that period.
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- ↑ Genesis 11:18-19
- ↑ Ussher, James. The Annals of the World, Larry Pierce, ed. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2003, pghh. 48-49
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