Eber

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Eber
Eber imagined in the 1553 Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum
ChildrenPeleg
Joktan
ParentSelah

Eber (

Arabic: عٰابِر, romanized: ʿĀbir) is an ancestor of the Ishmaelites and the Israelites according to the Generations of Noah in the Book of Genesis (Genesis 10–11) and the Books of Chronicles (1 Chronicles 1
).

Lineage

Eber was a great-grandson of

Shelah, a distant ancestor of Abraham. According to the Hebrew Bible, Eber died at the age of 464.[1][2]

In the Septuagint, the name is written as Heber/Eber (῞Εβερ/Ἔβερ), and his father is called Sala (Σαλά/Σάλα). His son is called Phaleg/Phalek (Φαλέγ/Φάλεκ), born when Heber was 34 years old, and he had other sons and daughters. Heber lived to an age of 464 years.[3][4]

Name

The

triliteral root ע־ב־ר, ʕ-b-r, is connected with crossing over and the beyond.[5] Considering that other names for descendants of Shem also stand for places, Eber can also be considered the name of an area, perhaps near Assyria.[6]

Medieval scholars such as Michael the Syrian, Bar Hebraeus, and Agapius of Hierapolis noted that the prevailing view was the Hebrews (Hebrew: עִבְרִיִּים, romanized: ʿIḇriyyim, also derived from the letters ʿ-b-r) had received their name from ʿEber,[7][8] while others state the name "Hebrew" means "those who cross", a reference to those who crossed the Euphrates with Abram from Ur of the Chaldees to Harran and then Canaan.[6]

In some translations of the

Genesis 46:17 and in Numbers 26:45, as their names are distinct in Hebrew; Ḥeber is חבר with a heth while ʿEber has an ayin
.

Hebrew

See also: Adamic language

The 13th-century Muslim historian

Abu al-Fida relates a story noting that the patriarch Eber, the great-grandson of Shem, refused to help with the building of the Tower of Babel. As a result, his language was not confused when the tower was abandoned. He and his family alone retained the original Adamic language, which he identified as Hebrew, a language named after ʿEber.[9]

In Islam

See also: Hud (prophet)

ʿEber is sometimes referred to in classical Islamic writings as the "father" of the "prehistoric, original Arabs" (the ʿArab al-ʿĀriba), who lived in the Arabian Peninsula after the Deluge.[10] ʿEber was also identified with the Muslim prophet Hud by some of the early Muslim authorities, who has a surah named after him in the Quran.[11] Other sources identify the prophet Hud as ʿEber's son.[11][12]

See also

References

  1. ^
    JSTOR 3261014
    .
  2. ^ Genesis 11:14–17
  3. ^ Genesis 11:14–17
  4. ^ "Septuagint Genesis, Ch. 10 - Part 3".
  5. ^ Marcus Jastrow, A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (London, W.C.: Luzac & Co. ; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; 1903), p. 1039 etc.
  6. ^ a b Public Domain Hirsch, Emil G.; König, Eduard (1903). "Eber". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 30.
  7. ^ Who Were the Hebrews?
  8. ^ "EBER - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  9. Jewish Encyclopedia
    ; Funk & Wagnalls, 1906.
  10. T.W. Arnold
    , R. Basset, R. Hartmann.
  11. ^
    T.W. Arnold
    , R. Basset, R. Hartmann.
  12. OCLC 310402464.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )

External links

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