Jim Belote 2000-2002

This is (will be) an alphabetical listing of all the more than 500 named people shown on the Old Testament genealogical diagram. Each name includes something about the genealogical/kinship position of the person named and where that information can be found in the Bible. For some, the meaning of the name in the original language (Hebrew/Chaldee) is provided (the source is Strong 1990 [1890]). And in some cases, further information, especially that which is related to kinship and other family matters, is supplied.

Genealogical information for the persons named in the New Testament genealogical diagram comes from the first chapter of Matthew and the third chapter of Luke, and is not included herein.

So that the genealogies of Christ given in both the Old and New Testament genealogies can be easily compared, they are combined on a page with frames (requires Netscape 2.0 or later, or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later).

Another page on this site provides further discussion of Kinship and Family in the Bible

Note that there are several complications in attempting to accurately represent genealogical material from the Bible. In the first place a single individual in the Bible may be known under several names and, even more commonly, with variant of spellings of a particular name in both the original and in the KJV or other versions. Also, the terms "father" and "mother" usually represent what we mean by father or mother in the genealogical sense--a male or female ancestor one (and only one) generation "older" of an individual with whom we are concerned. However, it appears that in the KJV these terms may be used for persons many generations removed. The same applies to "son" and "daughter." In other words, "father" and "mother" may refer to grandfathers and grandmothers, or great grandfathers and great grandmothers, and so on. Likewise, "brother" in some cases may represent not someone who has one or two of the same parents (one generation up), but also cousins (especially children of a father's brother [using both those terms in a restrictive sense] or males in the same patrilineally traced tribe or other kinship grouping. These and other problems have been noted in the following listing where it seemed appropriate.

AARON The son of Amram and Jochebad and the brother of Moses and Miriam (Numbers 26:59).

ABEL ("emptiness" "vanity" "something transitory"...) The second son of Eve and Adam. "And she [*Eve*] again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep"(Genesis 4:2).

ABI (see ABIJAH)

ABIEL Possibly the Father of Kish who was the father of King Saul. See KISH for details.

ABIAH A wife of Hezron and mother of Ashur after Hezron's death according to the KJV reading (I Chronicles 2:24). Note that an alternative translation of this verse, by the Living Bible version, and the (Spanish) Nacar Calunga version, says that after Hezron died, Caleb married Ephrathah, his father's widow, and they had a son, Ashur. And in the notes to the Harper Collins New Revised Standard Version Study Bible [1993] the suggested better reading was "Caleb went in to Ephrathah (and Hezron's wife was Abijah) and she bore him Ashhur" ).

ABIDA A son Midian, and grandson of Abraham by Ketura (Genesis 25:4; I Chronicles 1:33).

ABIEZER A son of Hammeloketh (his mother). His father is not mentioned in the Bible (I Chronicles 7:18). He is probably the "founder" of the Abiezrites and thus ancestor of Gideon (Judges 6:11).

ABIGAIL First married to Nabal, then to David, she was mother of David's second son, Chileab.(I Samuel 25:2-42; II Samuel 3:3)

ABIHAIL A wife of king Rehoboam, she was Rehoboam's father's (Solomon's) father's (David's) brother's (Eliab's) daughter, (II Chronicles 11:18-19) i.e. a first cousin once removed.

ABIHU A son of Aaron by Elisheba (Exodus 6:23), he died without children (I Chronicles 24:1-2).

ABIJAH King of Judah, son of king Rehoboam to Maachah, the daughter of Absalom (II Chronicles 11:17-22; I Kings 15:1-2). In another place his mother is given as Michaiah, daughter of Uriel of Gibea (II Chronicles 13:1-2).

ABIJAH Wife of king Ahaz of Judah.

ABIMAEL One of the thirteen sons of Joktan (Genesis 10:25-30).

ABIMELECH The son of Gideon to his concubine from Shechem: "And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten; for he had many wives And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech" (Judges 8:30-31). Abimelech later kills all but one of his half-brothers and becomes king of Shechem (Judges 9:6), and "reigned three years over Israel" (Judges 9:22).

ABITAL A wife of king David and the mother of David's fifth son, Shephatiah.

ABRAHAM ("father of a multitude")(ABRAM) A son of Terah and father of Ishmael, Isaac and many others, he was first called "Abram." (Genesis 11:27). His first wife was Sarah (Sarai), his half-sister (they had the same father, but different mothers Genesis 20:1, 12).

ABRAM ("high father") (see ABRAHAM).

ABSOLOM A son of king David by Maacah.

ADAH A wife of Lamech who was the son of Methusael and a descendant of Cain (Genesis 4:18-19).

ADAH A daughter of Elon the Hittite, she was a wife of Esau and the mother of Eliphaz (Genesis 36:2, 4). (Genesis 26:34 lists Bashemath rather than Adah as daughter of Elon and wife of Esau--see BASHEMOTH more on this).

ADAIAH Father of Jedidah who was the wife of king Amon of Judah (II Kings 22:1).

ADAM ("ruddy" "a human being") Genesis 1:26-27; 2:19 [first mention of Adam by name] ; 5:1-2.

ADBEEL One of the twelve sons of Ishmael (I Chronicles 1:29).

ADODIJAH A son of king David by Haggith.

AHAB King of Israel, son of king Omri (I Chronicles 16: 28-30), he had seventy sons (II Kings 7:1) including two kings of Israel, Ahaziah (I Kings 22:40, 51) and Jehoram.(II Kings 3:1), and a daughter (probably Athaliah) who married a king of Judah. Jezebel was a wife of Ahab (I Kings 16: 30-31).

AHAZ King of Judah.

AHAZIAH King of Israel, son of King Ahab (I Kings 22:40). He died without sons and was followed as King of Israel by Jehoram (II Kings 1:17-18).

AHAZIAH (Jehoahaz?) King of Juda, the was the youngest, and only surviving son of King Jehoram. Note: King Jehoram's youngest son is called "Jehoahaz" in II Chronicles 21:16, "Ahaziah" in II Chronicles 22:1) of Judah. His mother was Athaliah, daughter of Omni (II Chronicles 22:2) (or possibly, as implied in II Chronicles 22:2-3, she was the grand-daughter of Omni and daughter of Ahab: "He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly." ) .

AHIJA Father of Baasha. Baasha became king of Israel. (I Kings 15:27-29) Ahija was of the house of Issachar (I Kings 15:27) (the fifth son of Jacob and founder of one of the twelve tribes).

AHIKAM father of Gedeliah and son of Shaphan.

AHIMAAZ In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Zadok and the father of Azariah (I Chronicles 6:8-9).

AHINOAM A wife of David (I Samuel 25:43) and the mother of David's firstborn son, Amnon (II Samuel 3:2).

AHITHOPHEL Counsellor to David (II Samuel 15:12) and father of Eliam (II Samuel 23:34).

AHITUB In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Amariah and the father of Zadok (I Chronicles 6:7-8).

AHITUB In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Amariah and the father of Zadok (I Chronicles 6:11-12).

AHLAI Daughter of Sheshan, she was given to Sheshan's Egyptian servant.

AHOLIBAMA A wife of Esau and descendant of Zibeon the Hivite (Genesis 36:2).

AHIJAH The father of Baasha, one of the kings of Israel (I Kings 15:33).

ALMODAD One of the thirteen sons of Joktan (Genesis 10:25-30).

AMARIAH In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Azariah and the father of Ahitub (I Chronicles 6:11).

AMAZIAH A king of Judah.

AMELEK Son of Eliphaz and Timna and grandson of Esau (Genesis 36:2), he is probably the founder of the Amelekites.

AMNON The first born son of king David, he was born to David's wife, Ahinoam. He was killed by his half-brother Absolom after he (Amnon) Absolom's (full?) sister, Tamar.

AMON A king of Judah.

ANAH A Hivite and ancestor (father?) of Aholibamah who was a wife of Esau (Genesis 36:2).

ANAMIM One of the seven sons of Mizraim (Genesis 10:13).

APPAIM Son of Nadab and father of Ishi (I Chronicles 2:30-31).

ARAM One of the five sons of Noah's son Shem (Genesis 10:1,22), he was the father of Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash (Genesis 10:23).

ARPHAXAHAD One of the five sons of Noah's son Shem (Genesis 10:1,22), he was the father of Salah (Genesis 10:24).

ASA A king of Judah son of Abijah. His mother is listed as Maachah (I Kings 15:9-13; II Chronicles 15:16). But in this case, "mother" may have meant "grandmother" (there is no use of the English terms "grandmother" or "grandfather" in the KJV version of the Old Testament).

ASENATH Daughter of Potiphera (an Egyptian priest of On), and wife of Joseph--given to him by Pharaoh (Genesis 41:45).

ASHER The eighth-born of Jacob's 12 sons, and "founder" of one of the "tribes" of Israel, he was the second son of Zilpah, the handmaid of Jacob's wife, Leah (Genesis 30:12-13).

ASHKENAZ One of the three sons of Gomer (Genesis 10:3).

ASHUR A son of Abiah and Hezron who was born after his father's death according to the KJV translation (I Chronicles 2:24. Note however, that an alternative translation of this verse, by the Living Bible version, and the (Spanish) Nacar Calunga version, says that after Hezron died, Caleb married Ephrathah, his father's widow, and they had a son, Ashur. And in the notes to the Harper Collins New Revised Standard Version Study Bible [1993] the suggested better reading was "Caleb went in to Ephrathah (and Hezron's wife was Abijah) and she bore him Ashhur" ).

ASSHUR One of the five sons of Noah's son Shem (Genesis 10:1,22).

ASSIR A son of king Jehoiachin of Judah (I Chronicles 3:17).

ATHALIA A daughter of king Ahab of Israel (see below), a wife of king Jehoram (Joram) of Judah (see below), the mother of king Ahaziah of Judah (II Chronicles 22:2) and, for a time, herself a ruler of Judah (II Kings 11:3). As a daughter of Ahab, whose only wife noted in the Bible was Jezebel, she may also be the daughter of Jezebel.

Note that in that in the KJV she is called a "daughter" of Omri (Ahab's father)(II Kings 8:26; II Chronicles 22:2). In the same passages in the New KJV she is called a "granddaughter" of Omri. Remember that kinship terms in the Bible are sometimes used in a wide sense, as is apparently the case with the earlier version of the KGV. In this regard, note also that Athalia is called the "mother" of Ahaziah who was the son of the man she married, king Jehoram of Judah (II Kings 8:16-18; II Chronicles 21:6) and that Jehoram married a daughter (presumably Athaliah) of Ahab (II Kings 8:18; II Chronicles 22:5-6).

When her son, Ahaziah (the successor of Jehoram as king) died, Athalia had all the "seed royal" she could find destroyed and became the ruler of Judah. However, she had not been able to kill Joash (Jehoash), a son of Ahaziah (and her grandson), and in the seventh year of her reign she was overthrown and killed under the leadership of Jehoiada the priest, and Joash became king (II Kings 11:1-20).

ATTAI Son of the daughter of Sheshan, Ahlai, and the Egyptian servant of Sheshan, Jarha, he was the father of Nathan (I Chronicles 2:34-36).

ATTAI Son of king Rehoboam of Judah and brother of king Abija (II Chronicles 11:17-20).

AZARIAH (see UZZIAH)

AZARIAH A son of Jehu and the father of Helez (in the line of Sheshan through his daughter, Ahlai, and his Egyptian servant, Jarha (I Chronicles 2:34-39).

AZARIAH In the KJV the name of two of the sons of king Jehoshaphat of Judah who were killed by their brother, Jehoram (Joram), as an attempt to consolidate his position as king (II Chronicles 21:1-4).

AZARIAH In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was a son of Zadok (I Kings 4:2) and therefore brother of Ahimaaz (see I Chronicles 6:8).

AZARIAH In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Ahimaaz and the father of Johanan (I Chronicles 6:9).

AZARIAH In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Johanan and the father of Amariah and was a priest in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem (I Chronicles 6:1o-11).

AZARIAH In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Hilkiah and the father of Seraiah (I Chronicles 6:13-14).

AZUBAH Wife of king Asa of Judah.

BAASHA Son of Ahijah and the third king of Israel (I Kings 15:33; I Kings 16:8) and the father of Elah, who followed him as king (I Kings 16:6).

BATHSHEBA (BATHSHUA) Daughter of Eliam (II Samuel 11:3). Although wife of Uriah, she became pregnant to King David (II Samuel 11:4-5). David sent her husband, Uriah, to be killed in battle (II Samuel 11:14-17) and she then became one of David's wives (II Samuel 11:26-27). The unnamed son who came as a result of that liason died shortly after birth (II Samuel 12:11-18) but Bathsheba bore other sons to David, her second husband: Solomon , Nathan, Shammua and Shobab (I Chronicles 3:5).

BASHEMATH A wife of Esau, daughter of Ishmael, and sister of Ishmael's son Nebajoth according to Genesis 36:3, and as such mother of Reuel (Genesis 36:4). Bashemath is called a wife of Esau and daughter of Elon the Hittite in Genesis 26:34. On the other hand, in Genesis 36:2 Adah, rather than Bashemath, is called the daughter of Elon who is married to Esau. And Mahalath is named as the sister of Nebajoth and daughter of Ishmael that is wife of Esau in Genesis 28:9). Rather arbitrarily, in the kinship diagram I have recorded Mahalath as the daughter of Isaac married to Esau and Adah as the daughter of Elon married to Esau.

BEERI A Hittite, he was father of Judith, a wife of Esau (Genesis 26:34).

BENAMMI The second-born son of Lot and of Lot's second-born daughter (unnamed) who got her father drunk and had sexual intercourse with him in order to preserve his line of descent. Benammi is the founding father of the "children of Ammon" (Genesis 19:31-38).

BENJAMIN ("Son of the right hand") The twelfth-(and last)-born of Jacob's sons, and "founder" of one of the "tribes" of Israel, he was the second-born son of Jacob's beloved second wife, Rachel (Genesis 35:16-18). His mother was dying at the time of his birth and she named him "Benoni" ("Son of my sorrow"). Jacob, however called him "Benjamin" (Genesis 35:18).

BERECHIAH A son of Zerubabble and grandson of Pedaiah (1 Chronicles 3:19-20).

BETHER One of the four sons of Aram (Genesis 10:23).

BETHUEL A brother of Huz and Buz and one of eight sons of Milcah (she was also his cousin--his father's brother's daughter) and Nahor (Genesis 22: 20-21). He was the father of Rebekah (Genesis 22:23), Isaac's wife, and Laban (Genesis 24:29, 67).

BILAH ("timid")

BOAZ A son of Salmon and Rachab, he was a "near kinsman" (Ruth 3:12) to Ruth in terms of the laws of the levirate. When an even closer kinsman refused to "redeem the inheritance" of their "brother" Elimelech, Boaz did so, marrying Ruth and thus raising "up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren ..." (Ruth 4:1-10).

BUZ A brother of Huz and a son of Milcah (she was also his cousin--his father's brother's daughter) and Nahor (Genesis 22: 20-21).

CAIN ("a sense of fixity" "lance") Genesis 4 (1) "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. (2) ... Cain was a tiller of the ground."

CAINAN A son of Enos and the father of Mahalaleel and other (unnamed) sons and daughters (Genesis 5:9, 12-14).

CANAAN ("humiliated")[sons = Jebusites, Amorites, etc.]. A son of Ham. When Ham "saw the nakedness of his father," Noah (Genesis 9:22), Ham's son, Canaan (but not Ham himself, or his other sons), was cursed by Noah (Genesis 9:25-27). Canaan was the father of two named sons, Sidon and Heth, and is the founding ancestor of the Canaanites and other (sub?)groups such as the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgasites, etc. (Genesis 10:15-20).

CAPHTORIM One of the seven sons of Mizraim (Genesis 10:13-14).

CASLUHIM One of the seven sons of Mizraim and ancestor of the Philistines (Genesis 10:13-14).

CHILEAB (DANIEL?) A son of king David by Abigail.(II Samuel 3:3. In I Chronicles 3:1 the son of Abigail by David is called "Daniel.")

CHILION A son of Naomi and Elimelech and the husband of Orpah (Ruth 1:2-4 and see Ruth 4:10).

CUSH One of the four sons of Ham, he was the father of six sons including Nimrod (Genesis 10:6-8).

DAN The fifth-born of Jacob's 12 sons, and "founder" of one of the "tribes" of Israel, his biologiical mother was Bilah, the handmaid of Jacob's (at that time) barren wife, Rachel (Genesis 30:1-6).

DANIEL (see CHILEAB)

DAVID The second king of the unified kingdom, son of Jesse and, with a number of women (wives and concubines), the father of many sons including Solomon.

DEDAN A son of Raamah and grandson of Cush (Genesis 10:7; I Chronicles 1:9).

DEDAN A son of Jokshan, and grandson of Abraham by Ketura (Genesis 25:3; I Chronicles 1:32).

DIKLAH One of the thirteen sons of Joktan (Genesis 10:25-30).

DINAH The only mentioned daughter of Jacob (in addition to his 12 sons), she was born to Jacob's first wife, Leah (Genesis 30:20-21). She was raped by Shechem, the son of Hamor, the Hivite (Genesis 34:1-2).

DODANIM One of the four sons of Javan (Genesis 10:4).

DUMAH One of the twelve sons of Ishmael (I Chronicles 1:29-30).

EBER Son of Salah and father of Joktan and Peleg (Genesis 10:24-25). Strong (1990, Hebrew-Chaldee Dictionary #5680) suggests that the term "Hebrew" means descendant of Eber.

EGLAH A son of king David by Ithream.

ELAH A king of Israel.

ELAH Father of king Hoshea of Israel.

ELAM One of the five sons of Noah's son Shem (Genesis 10:1,22).

ELDAAH A son Midian, and grandson of Abraham by Ketura (Genesis 25:4; I Chronicles 1:33).

ELEASAH A son of Helez and father of Sisamai (in the line of Sheshan through his daughter, Ahlai, and his Egyptian servant, Jarha (I Chronicles 2:34-40).

ELIAB Firstborn (I Samuel 17:13-14) son of Jesse and brother of King David (I Samuel 16:5-6; I Chronicles 2:13-15). He was the father of Abihail, one of king Rehoboam's wives (II Chronicles 11:18).

ELIADA A son of king David by an unnamed wife (II Samuel 5:13-16).

ELIAKIM (JEHOIAKIM) A king of Judah and second son of king Josiah, his mother was Zebudah (II Kings 23:36). He was father of two named sons, Jehoiachin (Jechoniah) (II Kings 24:6) who followed him as king, and Zedekiah (I Chronicles 3:6).

ELIAM Is named as son of Ahithophel (II Samuel 23:34) in one place and father of Bathsheba (II Samuel 11:3) in another. Note: Because Ahithophel was a counsellor to David and David married Bathsheba it seems probable that the two sources were naming the same person. But there is no further evidence of this in the Bible.

ELIASHIB In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Joiakim and father of Joiada (Nehemiah 12:10)

ELIAZER A son of Aaron by Elisheba (Exodus 6:23) and ancestor of a priestly line (I Chronicles 24:1-4).

ELIEZER The second-born son of Moses and Zipporah.

ELIMELECH Husband of Naomi and father-in-law of Ruth.

ELIPHAZ Son of Esau by Adah (Genesis 36:10) and father of several sons to an unnamed wife, or wives (not shown on diagram), and of one son, Amalek, to his concubine, Timna (Genesis 36:11-12).

ELIPHELET A son of king David by an unnamed wife (II Samuel 5:13-16).

ELISHA One of the four sons of Javan (Genesis 10:4).

ELISHAMA A son of king David by an unnamed wife (II Samuel 5:13-16; I Chronicles 3:8; 14:7), he was an ancestor of the killer of Gedeliah, Ishmael (I Chronicles 25:25).

ELISHAMA A son of Jekamiah (and the last person mentioned in the line of Sheshan through his daughter, Ahlai, and his Egyptian servant, Jarha (I Chronicles 2:34-41).

ELISHEBA A daughter of Aminidab and the wife of Aaron, she had four sons to Aaron (Genesis 6:23).

ELISHUA A son of king David by an unnamed wife (II Samuel 5:13-16).

ELNATHAN Father of Nehushta who was the wife of king Eliakim of Judah.

ELON A Hittite, father of Adah, wife of Esau (Genesis 36:2) (in Genesis 4:17 Elon is listed as father of Bashemath, wife of Esau).

ENOCH ("initiated") A son of Cain and father of Irad (Genesis 4:16-18).

ENOCH A man who "walked with God: and he was not; for God took him" (Genesis 5:24), Enoch was the son of Jared (Genesis 5:18) and the father of Methuselah and other (unnamed) sons and daughters (Genesis 5:21-22).

ENOS A son of Seth and the father of Cainan and other (unnamed) sons and daughters (Genesis 5:6, 9-11).

EPHAH A son Midian, and grandson of Abraham by Ketura (Genesis 25:4; I Chronicles 1:33).

EPHER A son Midian, and grandson of Abraham by Ketura (Genesis 25:4; I Chronicles 1:33).

EPHLAL A son of Zabad and father of Obed (in the line of Sheshan through his daughter, Ahlai, and his Egyptian servant, Jarha (I Chronicles 2:34-37).

EPHRON Apparently he was a descendant of Heth through his (Ephron's) father Zohar (who was called a "Hittite"). Abraham was buried in a field belonging to Ephron (Genesis 25:8-10).

ESAU (..."rough")

ESROM (see HEZRON)

EVE ("life giver") Genesis 1 (27) "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." ; 2 (22) "And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man [*Adam*]. (23) And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." [The name "Eve" is not used until Genesis 3 (20) "And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living."] [Eve is only mentioned by name twice in the OT and twice in the NT; Adam is mentioned 21 times and 8 times]

EZRA A priest and scribe(Ezra 7:12; Nehemiah 8:9) in the Levitical line of Eleazer, Ezra was son of Saraiah (Ezra 7:1) and therefore brother of Jehozadak (I Chronicles 6:14). He led the people who returned to Jerusalem from the Babylonian exile.

GAD The seventh-born of Jacob's 12 sons, and "founder" of one of the "tribes" of Israel, his biologiical mother was Zilpah, the handmaid of Jacob's wife, Leah who had already given birth to Jacob's first four sons (Genesis 30:9-11).

GADI Father of king Menahem of Israel.

GEDELIAH Son of Ahikam he was governor of Judah.

GERSHOM The first-born son of Moses and Zipporah.

GIDEON (JERUBBAAL) Son of Joash, the Abiezrite (Judges 6:11). Gideon had seventy sons to "many wives" (Judges 8:30) and a son , Abimelech, to a concubine in Shechem (Judges 8:31). After Gideon's death, Abimelech killed all but one, of his half-brothers (Jotham)(Joshua 9:5), and "reigned three years over Israel" (Joshua 9:22).

GOMER One of the seven sons of Japheth and the father of Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah (Genesis 10:2-3).

HADAD One of the twelve sons of Ishmael (I Chronicles 1:29-30).

HADORAM One of the thirteen sons of Joktan (Genesis 10:25-30).

HAGAR The Egyptian handmaid of Abraham's wife, Sara (Sarai). As Sara was unable to have children, she gave her handmaid Hagar to her husband as a (surrogate) child bearer. When Hagar gave birth to Ishmael (Abraham's first-born son) Sara felt despised by her handmaid and had Abraham (at the time "Abram") drive Hagar and her son away (Genesis 16:1-2, 6). Nevertheless, God promised that his son Ishmael the founder of a "great nation" (traditionally thought to be the Arab people)(Genesis 17:20).

HAGGITH A wife of king David and the mother of David's fourth son, Adonijah.

HAM ("hot") One of the three sons of Noah (Genesis 5:32). When Ham "saw the nakedness of his father," Noah (Genesis 9:22), Ham's son, Canaan (but not Ham himself, or his other sons), was cursed by Noah (Genesis 9:25-27).

HAMMOLEKETH a daughter of Machir and sister of Gilead (I Chronicles 7:14-18) or, in the Living Bible translation, the sister of Machir. Whether daughter or sister of Machir, both translations agree that she was the mother of Abiezer (and thus probably an ancestor of Gideon), Mahalah, and Ishod (I Chronicles 7:18). In the Bible, she is one of the few mothers named with a line of descendants in which no name--or even mention--is given to the father of her children.

HAMOR A Hivite, and father of Shechem, who raped Jacob's daughter, Dinah, he along with Shechem and other Hivites was killed by Jacob's sons Levi and Simeon (Genesis 34).

HAMUTAL A wife of king Josiah of Judah.

HANANIAH Son of Zerubabbel and grandson of Pedaiah (I Chronicles 3:19-21).

HARAN One of the sons of Terah (Abraham's father), he was the father of Lot, Iscah and Milcah (Genesis 11:26-29).

HASADIAH A son of Zerubabble and grandson of Pedaiah (1 Chronicles 3:19-20). .

HASHUBA A son of Zerubabbel and grandson of Pedaiah (1 Chronicles 3:19-20).

HAVILAH One of the six sons of Cush (Genesis 10:7).

HAVILAH One of the thirteen sons of Joktan (Genesis 10:25-30).

HAZARMAVETH One of the thirteen sons of Joktan (Genesis 10:25-30).

HELEZ A son of Azariah and father of Eleasah (in the line of Sheshan through his daughter, Ahlai, and his Egyptian servant, Jarha (I Chronicles 2:34-39).

HENOCH A son Midian, and grandson of Abraham by Ketura (Genesis 25:4; I Chronicles 1:33).

HEPHZIBAH Wife of king Hezekiah of Judah and mother of king Manesseh (II Kings 21:1).

HETH The second-born son of Canaan and a grandson of Noah (Genesis 10:1, 15). Apparently he was an ancestor of Zohar and his son Ephron who were called "Hittites"(Genesis 25:9-10).

HEZEKIAH A king of Judah.

HEZRON (ESROM) In the ancestral line of king David, he was son of Pharez and grandson of Judah, and the father of Ram (Amram) (Genesis 46:12; Ruth 4:18-19). He was also father of Caleb (Chelubai) and Jerahmeel (I Chronicles 2:9, 2:18) and later in life, after marrying a daughter of Machir, he became father of Segub (I Chronicles 2:21). Finally, after his death, his wife, Abiah, gave birth to another son, Ashur (I Chronicles 2:24. Note that an alternative translation of this verse, by the Living Bible version, and the (Spanish) Nacar Calunga version, says that after Hezron died, Caleb married Ephrathah, his father's widow, and they had a son, Ashur. And in the notes to the Harper Collins New Revised Standard Version Study Bible [1993] the suggested better reading was "Caleb went in to Ephrathah (and Hezron's wife was Abijah) and she bore him Ashhur" ).

HILKIAH In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Shallum and the father of Azariah (I Chronicles 6:13).

HOSHAMA A son of king Jehoiachin of Judah.

HOSHEA A king of Israel.

HUL One of the four sons of Aram (Genesis 10:23).

HUZ The first-born son of Milcah (she was also his cousin--his father's brother's daughter) and Nahor (Genesis 22: 20-21).

IBHAR A son of king David by an unnamed wife (II Samuel 5:13-16).

IRAD A descendant of Cain, he was the son of Enoch and the father ofMehujael (Genesis 4:16-18).

ISAAC ("laughter" "mockery") The son finally born to Abraham and Sarah with whom God established his covenant (Genesis 17:19). Isaac's wife was Rebekah (Genesis 25:20) (his [half?] first cousin, once-removed) and to her he had twin sons: Esau, the firstborn twin, and Jacob (Genesis 25:25-26).

ISCAH A daughter of Haran (Abraham's brother) (Genesis 11:29).

ISHBAK A son of Abraham by his concubine Ketura (Genesis 25:1-2; I Chronicles 1:32).

ISHI Son of Appaim and father of Sheshan (I Chronicles 2:31).

ISHMAEL ("God will hear") Son of Abraham by Sarah's Egyptian handmaid Hagar. Although he and his mother were driven away from Abraham's household when Sara felt despised by her child-bearing handmaid, Abraham was promised by God that his son, Ishmael, would be the founder of a great nation (Genesis 16:1-2, 6; 17:20). (Genesis 17:20). Hagar found an Egyptian wife for Ishmael (Genesis 21:17-21) and he became the father of twelve sons and one named daughter (Genesis 25:12-16; 28:9). Some traditions hold that he is an ancestor of the Arab people.

ISHMAEL Son of Nethaniah, a descendant of Elishama a son of King David, he led the killing of Gedeliah (I Chronicles 25:25).

ISHOD A son of Hammeloketh (his mother). His father is not mentioned in the Bible (I Chronicles 7:18).

ISSACHAR The ninth-born of Jacob's 12 sons, and "founder" of one of the "tribes" of Israel, he was the fifth-born son of Jacob's first wife, Leah (Genesis 30:17-18).

ITHAMAR A son of Aaron by Elisheba (Exodus 6:23) and ancestor of a priestly line (I Chronicles 24:1-4).

ITHREAM A wife of king David and the mother of David's sixth son, Eglah.

JAALAM A son of Esau by Esau's wife Aholibamah (Genesis 36:14)

JABAL Genesis 4:20 "And Adah [* wife of Lamech *] bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle."

JABESH Father of king Shallum of Israel.

JACOB The second born son of Isaac (Genesis 25: 24-26). With the help and encouragement of his mother, Rebeka, Jacob managed to claim the right of the first born (the rule of primogeniture) from his older brother Esau (Genesis )

JADDUA Son of Jonathan, grandson of Joiada (Nehemiah 12:11), he was last of the Levitical line from Eleazar mentioned in the Bible.

JAIR Son of Segub and grandson of Hezron (I Chronicles 2:21-22).

JAPHETH One of the three sons of Noah (Genesis 10:1) and the father of seven sons.

JAPHIA A son of king David by an unnamed wife (II Samuel 5:13-16).

JARED A son of Mahalaleel and the father of Enoch and other (unnamed) sons and daughters (Genesis 5:16-20).

JARHA Sheshan's Egyptian servant, he was given his master's daughter and became the father of Attai, who appears to have been counted as a continuation of Sheshan's line of descendants (I Chronicles 2:34-31).

JAVAN One of the seven sons of Japheth (Genesis 10:2).

JECAMIAH A son of king Jehoiachin of Judah.

JECHONIAH (JEHOIACHIN) A king of Judah.

JECOLIAH Wife of king Amaziah of Judah.

JEDIDAH Wife of king Amon of Judah, mother of king Josiah (II Kings 22:1)

JEHIEL One of the sons of king Jehoshaphat of Judah who was killed by their brother, Jehoram (Joram) as an attempt to consolidate his position as king (II Chronicles 21:1-4).

JEHOADDAN Wife of king Joash of Judah.

JEHOAHAZ A king of Israel.

JEHOAHAZ (SHALLUM), A king of Judah.

JEHOASH (see JOASH) A king of Israel.

JEHOIAKIM see ELIAKIM

JEHOIACHIN see JECHONIAH

JEHOIAKIM see ELIAKIM A king of Judah and second son of king Josiah.

JEHORAM (JORAM) A king of Judah, son of king Jehoshaphat, and father of king Ahaziah (I Kings 22:50; I Chronicles 3:10-11: II Kings 8:24) He was married to Athaliah, daughter of king Ahab of Israel (II Kings 8:16-18; II Chronicles 21:6). His brother-in-law through his wife was also known as Joram or Jehoram, and was a king of Israel. Jehoram, king of Judah, killed all his brothers in order to strengthen his position (II Chronicles 21:1-4).

JEHORAM (JORAM) A king of Israel, son of King Ahab of Israel (II Kings 3:1)

JEHOSHABEATH Daughter of king Jehoram of Judah.

JEHOSHAPHAT A king of Judah.

JEHOSHAPHAT Father of king Jehu of Israel.

JEHU A son of Obed and father of Azariah (in the line of Sheshan through his daughter, Ahlai, and his Egyptian servant, Jarha (I Chronicles 2:34-38).

JEHU A king of Israel.

JEOIACHIN (JECHONIAH) A king of Judah.

JEHOIADA Father of Zechariah.

JEHOSHABEATH Wife of Jehoiada.

JEHOZADAK (JOZADAK) In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Seraiah (I Chronicles 6:14) and the father of Jeshua (Ezra 3:2).

JEKEMIAH A son of Shallum and father of Elishama (in the line of Sheshan through his daughter, Ahlai, and his Egyptian servant, Jarha (I Chronicles 2:34-41).

JEPHETH

JERAH One of the thirteen sons of Joktan (Genesis 10:25-30).

JERAHMEEL The firstborn son of Hezron and father of Onam (among others), he had at least two wives including Atarah, the mother of Onam (I Chronicles 2:9; 2:25-27).

JEREMIAH Father of Hamutal who was the wife of king Josiah of Judah.

JERIMOTH A son of David by an unnamed wife, he was the father of Mahalath, a wife of king Rehoboam (II Chronicles 11:18).

JEROBOAM A king of Israel, father of king Nadab, son of Nabat.

JEROBOAM A king of Israel, father of king Zechariah, son of king Jehoash.

JEROBOAM A king of Israel.

JERUBBAAL (see GIDEON)

JERUSHA Wife of king Uzziah of Israel.

JESAIAH A son of Hananiah and grandson of Zerubabbel (1 Chronicles 3:19, 21).

JESHUA A high priest in the the Levitical line of Eleazer who returned to Jerusalem from the Babylonian exile (Ezra 2:2; 5:2), he was the son of Jehozadak (Ezra 3:2)and father of Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:11) and Jozabad (Ezra 8:33).

JESSE Son of Obed and father of king David.

JETHRO (REUEL) A priest of Midian and the father of seven daughters including Zipporah who became a wife of Moses (Exodus 2:16-21; 3:1). Moses tended the flocks of Jethro (forty years according to the New Testament (Acts 7:30); no time of service is specified in the Old Testament).

JETUR One of the twelve sons of Ishmael (I Chronicles 1:29-31).

JEUSH A son of Esau by Esau's wife Aholibamah (Genesis 36:14)

JEUSH A son of king Rehoboam by his wife, Abihail (II Chronicles 11:18-19).

JEZEBEL The wife of King Ahab of Israel and the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians (I Kings 16: 30-31), she fought against the prophets of the Lord (I Kings 118: 4, 31, etc.) and stirred her husband to do much evil (I Kings 21: 25). Jezebel was the mother of king Joram (Jehoram) of Israel (II Kings 9:22) and, as the only named wife of Ahab, may also have been the mother of Athaliah (a ruler of Judah) and king Ahaziah of Israel.

JOASH The father of Gideon and, as an Abiezrite (Judges 6:11), probably a descendant of Abiezer, and Abiezer's mother Hammoleketh (I Chronicles 7:18).

JOASH A king of Judah.

JOASH (JEHOASH) A king of Israel, he was the son of king Ahaziah (II Kings 11:1-2). When his father died, his grandmother, Ahaziah became queen of Israel and attempted to kill all other claimants to the throne. Joash was hidden away by his aunt, Jehosheba (Jehoshabeath) and when Ahaziah was overthrown and killed he became king (at the age of seven) (II Kings 20-21).

JOBAB One of the thirteen sons of Joktan (Genesis 10:25-30).

JOHANAN In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Azariah and the father of Azariah (I Chronicles 6:9-10).

JOHANAN The first son of king Josiah of Judah, he never became king himself.

JOIADA In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Eliashib and father of Jonathan (Nehemiah 12:10).

JOIAKIM In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Jeshua and father of Eliashib (Nehemiah 12:10)

JOKSHAN A son of Abraham by his concubine Ketura (Genesis 25:1-2; I Chronicles 1:32).

JOKTAN One of the two sons of Eber, he was the father of thirteen named sons (Genesis 10 25-30).

JONATHAN In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Joiada and father of Jaddua (Nehemiah 12:11).

JORAM (See Jehoram, king of Israel).

JOSEPH The eleventh-born of Jacob's 12 sons, he was the first-born son of Jacob's beloved second wife, Rachel (Genesis 30:22-24). His wife was Asenath. His sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, each became a "founding father" of a "tribe" of Israel (Joshua 16 & 17).

JOSIAH

JOTHAM The youngest son of Gideon by one of his wives. He was the only one to survive the massacre of all the rest of his brothers and half-brothers by Abimelech, the son of Gideon's concubine (Judges 8:30-31; 9:5).

JOTHAM A king of Judah.

JOZABAD In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Jeshua (Ezra 8:33) and therefore brother of Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:10).

JOZADAK (see JEHOZADAK)

JUBAL A son of Lamech by Adah, he was the "father of all such as handle the harp and organ" (Genesis 4:20).

JUDAH The fourth-born of Jacob's 12 sons, and "founder" of one of the "tribes" of Israel, his mother was Leah (Genesis 29:31-35). Because his older brothers committed acts that displeased his father, predominance among the 12 brothers was assigned to him (Genesis 49:1-12).

JUDITH Daughter to Beeri the Hittite and wife to Esau (Genesis 26:34).

JUSHABHESED A son of Zerubabbel and grandson of Pedaiah (1 Chronicles 3:19-20).. Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and

KEDAR One of the twelve sons of Ishmael (I Chronicles 1:29).

KEDEMAH One of the twelve sons of Ishmael (I Chronicles 1:29-31).

KETURAH ("perfumed") A concubine of Abraham and the mother of six named sons including Midian (I Chronicles 1:32). Elsewhere in the Bible (Genesis 25:1), the King James Version (as well as other translations such as the New International, the Living Bible and the New Revised Standard) list(s) her as "wife." Note, however, that neither in the Old Testament Hebrew nor in the New Testament Greek is there a word for "wife" (in particular) as opposed to "woman" (in general). There is, however, a word for "concubine" (as distinct to "woman" in general) in Old Testament Hebrew, and that is the term used in I Chronicles 1:32 and in Genesis 25:5-6 where mothers of the sons of offspring of Abraham other than Isaac are listed as "concubines." As mother of Midian, she is regarded as an ancestor of the Midianites (who include the Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses). And according to Dr. Ron Marchese of the University of Minnesota Duluth, an expert on the Kurds, some Kurdish tradition/mythology claims her as an ancestor of the Kurds.

KISH The father of the King Saul.

Who his father was is not clear as the following verses indicate: "Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power. And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man ..." (1 Samuel 9:1); "And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle. And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.(I Samuel 14:50-51). Here Abiel is the father of Kish and Ner is brother of Kish and uncle of Saul.

On the other hand: "And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan ..." (I Chronicles 8:33); "And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat Jonathan ..." (I Chronicles 9:39). Also: "And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name was Maachah: And his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab, And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth. And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they also dwelt with their brethren at Jerusalem, over against their brethren. And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul ..." (I Chronicles 9:35-39). Here Ner is the father of Kish, and the grandfather of Saul. And Kish has an uncle also named Kish.  

I have arbitrarily chosen the first set of verses to indicate the direction of Kish's ancestral line; it is first diagram (on the left) of the figure below:
                                   

KITTIM One of the four sons of Javan (Genesis 10:4).

KORAH A son of Esau by Esau's wife Aholibamah (Genesis 36:14)

LABAN ("white") The brother of Rebekah (Genesis 24:29), and therefore son of Bethuel (Genesis 22:23), he was also the father of Jacob's wives, Rachael and Leah (Genesis 29:16-28).

LAMECH A son of Methusael (descendant of Cain), and a father of sons, Jubal, Jabal and Tubalcain, and daughter Naamah (Genesis 4:18-22). Lamech is the first person in the Bible noted to have had two wives (Adah and Zilah) (Genesis 4:19)

LAMECH A son of the long-lived Mathuselah, and father of Noah and other (unnamed) sons and daughters (Genesis 5:25, 28-30).

LEAH ("weary")

LEHABIM One of the seven sons of Mizraim (Genesis 10:13).

LEVI The third-born of Jacob's 12 sons, his mother was Leah (Genesis 29:31-34). Because he and Simeon had killed Shechem, who had raped their sister Dinah and then arranged a marriage with her (Genesis 34), they lost their birth-order rights to their brother Judah (Genesis 49:1-12). Nevertheless, his descendents became a priestly caste (Numbers 3 & 4).

LOT ("veil") Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot (Genesis 11:27).

LUD One of the five sons of Noah's son Shem (Genesis 10:1,22).

LUDIM One of the seven sons of Mizraim (Genesis 10:13).

MAACHAH The daughter of King Talmi of Geshur and the wife of king David, she was the mother of David's third son, Absolom (I Chronicles 3:1-2), and probably also of David's daughter Tamar who was raped by Amnon.

MAACHAH One of the eighteen wives of king Rehoboam, and the mother of king Abijah, she was Rehoboam's father's (Solomon's) half brother's (Absolom's [Abishalom I Kings 14:31] ) daughter (II Chronicles 11:20-22), and thus Rehoboam's half first cousin. Maachah is also listed as the mother of Asa (son of Abijah) ( II Chronicles 15:16; I Kings 15:13) -- in this case, "mother" may have meant "queen mother" and therefore referred not to his mother but to his "grandmother" (there is no use of the English terms "grandmother" or "grandfather" in the KJV version of the Old Testament).The following figure (which has the same structure as the main genealogical diagram) illustrates this situation:

On the other hand, "Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah. He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah...." (II Chronicles 13:1-2). The diagram for this case is the following:

One source (John D. Davis, A DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE, 4th revised edition, Baker Book House,Grand Rapids, 1960, p. 738) suggests that Uriel of Gibea married Absalom's daughter, Tamar, and to them was born Michaiah [otherwise known as Maachah or Maacah] who became Rehoboam's wife. In this case, Maachah/Michaiah is the grandaughter of Absalom rather than the daughter. The following illustrates this possibility:

MAASEIAH A son of king Ahaz of Judah.

MADAI One of the seven sons of Japheth (Genesis 10:2).

MAGOG One of the seven sons of Japheth (Genesis 10:2).

MAHALAH A son of Hammeloketh (his mother). His father is not mentioned in the Bible (I Chronicles 7:18).

MAHALALEEL A son of Cainan and the father of Jared and other (unnamed) sons and daughters (Genesis 5:12-17).

MAHALATH A wife of Esau who was Ishmael's daughter and Nebajoth's sister (Genesis 28:9). See BASHEMATH for other possibilities.

MAHALATH One of the eighteen wives of king Reheboam, she was his father's (Solomon's) half brother's (Jerimoth's) daughter (II Chronicles 11:18), i.e. a half patrilateral parallel first cousin.

MAHLON A son of Naomi and Elimelech and the first husband of Ruth (Ruth 1:2-4; Ruth 4:10).

MALCHIRAM Son of king Jehoiachin of Judah.

MANAHEM A king of Israel.

MANESSEH

MANESSEH A king of Judah.

MASH One of the four sons of Aram (Genesis 10:23).

MASSA One of the twelve sons of Ishmael (I Chronicles 1:29-30).

MATTANIAH (see ZEDEKIAH)

MEDAN A son of Abraham by his concubine Ketura (Genesis 25:1-2; I Chronicles 1:32).

MEHUJAEL A son of Irad (descendant of Cain), and father of Methusael (Genesis 4:16-20).

MENAHEM A king of Israel.

MESHECH One of the seven sons of Japheth (Genesis 10:2).

MESHULEMETH Wife of king Manesseh of Judah and mother of king Amon (II Kings 21:19).

MESHULLAM A son of Zerubabble son of Pedaiah.

METHUSAEL ("man who is of God") A descendant of Cain, he was the son of Mehujael and the father of Lamech (Genesis 4:16-18).

METHUSELAH ("man with a dart") The long-lived son of Enoch and father of Lamech and other (unnamed) sons and daughters (Genesis 5:21, 25-26).

MIBSAM One of the twelve sons of Ishmael (I Chronicles 1:29).

MICHAEL One of the sons of king Jehoshaphat of Judah who was killed by their brother, Jehoram (Joram) as an attempt to consolidate his position as king (II Chronicles 21:1-4).

MICHAL A daughter of king Saul, she was given as wife to David when he completed the challenge (which Saul hoped would kill him) of bringing Saul the foreskins of 100 dead Philistines (instead of a dowry)--David brought 200 foreskins (I Samuel 18:17-27). But later Saul gave his daughter to another man, Phalti (I Samuel 25:44). She was eventually returned as wife to David (II Samuel 3:14-16). Michal died childless (II Samuel 6:23).

MIDIAN A son of Abraham by his concubine Ketura (Genesis 25:1-2; I Chronicles 1:32), he is probably the founding ancestor of the Midianites.

MILCAH ("queen") The daughter of Haran, she married her uncle (father's brother or half-brother), Nahor, and was the mother of eight sons including Huz, Buz and Bethuel (Genesis 11:27-29; 22:20-22).

MIRIAM Daughter of Amram and sister of Moses and Aaron (I Chronicles 6:3), Miriam became a prophet and leader among the Hebrews (Exodus 15:20). Later she and Aaron "spoke against" the marriage of Moses to an Ethopian woman (Numbers 12:1). For this she (but not Aaron) was struck with leprosy (Numbers 12:9-10). Aaron "beseeched Moses, and Moses "cried" unto the LORD on her behalf, and she was healed (Numbers 12:11-15).

MISHMA One of the twelve sons of Ishmael (I Chronicles 1:29-30).

MIZRAIM One of the four sons of Ham (Genesis 10:6), and the father of seven sons (Genesis 10:13-14).

MOAB The firstborn son of Lot and of Lot's firstborn daughter (unnamed) who got her father drunk and had sexual intercourse with him in order to preserve his line of descent. Moab is the founding father of the Moabites (Genesis 19:31-37 ) and thus probably a distant ancestor of Ruth the Moabitess (Ruth 1:22; 2:2).

MOSES Son of Amram and brother of Aaron and Miriam (1 Chronicles 6:3). Two wives are recorded for Moses: Zipporah, by whom he had Eliezer and Gershom (Exodus 18:2-4); and an Ethopian woman (Numbers 12:1), for whom no children are recorded.

NAAMAH

NABAL A wealthy man who roused David's anger by not giving David's men aid when asked. When David later was about to attack Nabal for that, Abigail, Nabal's wife persuaded David not to do so. Ten days after Abigail's intervention Nabal died, and shortly thereafter Abigail became David's wife. (I Samuel 25:2-42).

NADAB A son of Shammai and the father of Appaim and Seled (I Chronicles 2:28, 30)

NAAMAH Genesis 4:22 "And Zillah [*a wife of Lamech*], she also bare Tubalcain, ... and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah."

NAAMAH The only one of king Solomon's 700 wives who is named, she was the mother of king Rehoboam.

NADAB A son of Aaron by Elisheba (Exodus 6:23), he died without children (I Chronicles 24:1-2).

NADAB A king of Israel.

NAHOR A son of Serug and father of Terah, Abraham's father, as well as other sons and daughters (Genesis 11:22-26).

NAHOR A son of Terah and brother (or half-brother?) of Abraham and Haran, he married his neice (Haran's daughter), Milcah (Genesis 11:27-39). With Milcah he had eight sons, and with his concubine, Reumah, he had four sons (Genesis 22:20-24).

NAOMI Wife of Elimelech and mother-in-law of Ruth and Orpah. When her sons, Mahlon and Chilion, and her husband were dead she told her (childless?) daughters-in-law to return to their mothers' houses (Ruth 1:2-5)--not to wait for her to produce any more sons who could grow up to be their husbands. Ruth stayed with her anyway; Orpah left.(Ruth 1:10-18).

NAPHISH One of the twelve sons of Ishmael (I Chronicles 1:29-31).

NAPHTALI The sixth-born of Jacob's 12 sons, and "founder" of one of the "tribes" of Israel, he was the second son born to Bilah, the handmaid of Jacob's (at that time) barren wife, Rachel (Genesis 30:1-8).

NAPHTUHIM One of the seven sons of Mizraim (Genesis 10:13).

NATHAN Son of Attai, grandson of Ahlai, daughter of Sheshan, and Sheshan's Egyptian servant, Jarha (I Chronicles 2:34-36).

NATHAN A son of king David by Bathsheba.

NEBAIOTH (see NABAJOTH) The first-born of the twelve sons of Ishmael (I Chronicles 1:29; Genesis 25:13), his descendants may be mentioned in Isaiah 60:7.

NEBAT Father of King Jereboam of Israel.

NEPHEG A son of king David by an unnamed wife (II Samuel 5:13-16).

NEDEBIAH A son of King Jehoiachin of Judah.

NEHUSHTA Wife of king Eliakim of Judah, daughter of Elnathan, and mother of king Jehoiachin.

NETHANIAH A descendant of Elishama, son of king David, he was the father of Ishmael, who led the killing of Ishmael (I Chronicles 25:25).

NIMROD One of the six sons of Cush, he was a "mighty one in the earth," a "mighty hunter before the LORD," and ruler of a kingdom (Genesis 10:7-14).

NIMSHI Father of Jehoshaphat who was the father of king Jehu of Israel.

NOAH ("rest") The famous son of Lamech and the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth (Genesis 5:28-32).

NOGATH A son of king David by an unnamed wife (I Chronicles 3:7).

OBAL One of the thirteen sons of Joktan (Genesis 10:25-30).

OBED Son of Boaz and Ruth and father of Jesse.

OBED A son of Ephlal and father of Jehu (in the line of Sheshan through his daughter, Ahlai, and his Egyptian servant, Jarha (I Chronicles 2:34-38).

OHEL A son of Zerubabble and grandson of Pedaiah (1 Chronicles 3:19-20).

OMRI A king of Israel.

ONAM A son of Jerahmeel by his wife Atarah, and father of Shammai. (I Chronicles 2:26)

One of the sons of Joiada He married a "strange" woman and was thus "chased away" from Nehemiah (Nehemiah 13:28).

OPHIR One of the thirteen sons of Joktan (Genesis 10:25-30).

ORPAH Like Ruth, a daughter-in-law of Naomi and Elimelech (Ruth 1:3-4) she was (by inference with these verses and Ruth 4:10) wife of their son Chilion.

PATHRUSIM One of the seven sons of Mizraim (Genesis 10:13-14).

PEDAIAH A son of king Jehoiachin of Judah.

PEDEDAIAH

PEDIAH Father of Zubudiah who was the wife of king Josiah of Judah.

PEKAH A king of Israel and the son of Remaliah. In alliance with the king of Syria, Pekah went to war with Ahaz, the king of Judah (Isaiah 7:1). Pekah gained his position as king when, as a captain serving under king Pekahiah of Israel, he killed him and reigned in his stead. (II Kings 15: 25-27).

PEKAHIAH A king of Israel son of king Menahem, he reigned for two years starting during the reign of king Azariah of Judah (II Kings 15: 21-22). He was followed as king by Pekah (not his son), who killed him (II Kings 15: 25-27).

PELATIAH A son of Hananiah and grandson of Zerubabbel (1 Chronicles 3:19, 21). .

PELEG One of the two sons of Eber(Genesis 10:25), he was the father of Reu and other sons and daughters (Genesis 11:18-19).

PHALTI Son of Laish. He was married to king Saul's daughter Michal who had previously been given to David as wife (I Samuel 25:44). Eventually (and reluctantly) Phalti had to return her to David (II Samuel 3:15-16).

PHINEHAS Son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron.

PHUT One of the four sons of Ham (Genesis 10:6).

POTIPHERAH Egyptian priest of On, he was the father of Joseph's wife, Asenath (Genesis 41:45).

RACHAEL The daughter of Laban, and, along with her sister Leah, one of the wives of Jacob. Jacob worked seven years for Laban (bride service) thinking he would get to marry the woman he loved, Rachael. After the ceremony of union, he found he had been married to Leah instead. Laban claimed that in his country, the eldest daughter must be married first (primogeniture applied to daughters). Jacob worked another seven years in order to marry Rachael as well. Later, Laban insisted that Jacob take no other wives than his daughters Rachael and Leah (Genesis 31:50). After many years of barenness (she had four sons by her handmaid, Bilah, whom she offered as a kind of surrogate mother to her husband, Jacob) Rachel finally gave birth to Joseph and then Benjamin, the 11th and 12th sons of Jacob.

RAAMAH One of the six sons of Cush, and the father of Sheba and Dedan (Genesis 10:7).

REBEKAH A daughter of Bethuel (Genesis 22:23), and sister of Laban (Genesis 25:20), she married Isaac--her first cousin once removed (Genesis 25:20), and became the mother--after a period of childlessness--of the twins, Jacob and Esau (Genesis 25:21-26). As Rebekah's parents-in-law had done, she and her husband, Isaac, went to live in Gerar. And as in that case, her husband, Isaac, claimed that Rebekah was his sister (but in this case the claim was false) out of fear that he would be killed if the people of that country thought she was his wife (?). Unlike the earlier case, King Abimelech did not attempt to take Rebekah, but when he saw Isaac "sporting with" Rebekah he realized they were not brother and sister and complained that Rebekah and Isaac had risked bringing guiltiness on him and his people (Genesis 26:6-11).

REHABIAH Son of Eliezer and grandson of Moses and Zipporah.

REHOBOAM Last king of unified kingdom, son of king Solomon.

REMELIAH Father of king Pekah of Israel.

REU A son of Peleg and father of Serug and other sons and daughters (Genesis 11:18-21).

REUEL (see JETHRO)

REUMAH The concubine of Nahor (Abraham's brother), she bore him four children: Tebah, Gaham, Thahash and Maachah (Genesis 22:20-24).

RIPHATH One of the three sons of Gomer (Genesis 10:3).

REUBEN The first-born of Jacob's 12 sons, his mother was Leah (Genesis 29:31-32). Because he "lay with Bilah, his fathers concubine" (Genesis 35:22) he and his descendants lost their predominance among the sons of Jacob to Judah and his sons (Genesis 49:1-12).

REUEL A son of Esau by Esau's wife Bashemath (?), a daughter of Ishmael (Genesis 36:4, 10). See BASHEMATH and MAHALATH entries.

RUTH A Moabites, daughter-in-law of Naomi and Elimelech (Ruth 1:2-4, the wife of their son Mahlon (Ruth 4:10). After Elimelech died and then their two sons died (Ruth 1:3-5) Ruth accompanied her mother-in-law back to her (Naomi's) country ("...whither thou goest, I will go... ") (Ruth 1:11-18) and eventually remarried, this time to Boaz, a distant kinsman of Naomi's deceased husband, Elimelech. (Ruth 3:12; 4:13).

SABTECHAH One of the six sons of Cush (Genesis 10:7).

SABTAH One of the six sons of Cush (Genesis 10:7).

SALAH Son of Arphaxahad and father of Eber (Genesis 10:24).

SALATHIEL A son of king Jehoiachin of Judah (I Chronicles 3:17)..

SALMA ( see SALMON)

SALMON (SALMA) Son of Naason and father of Boaz (Ruth 4:20-21; I Chronicles ). Though not recorded as his wife in the Old Testament, the New Testament says that Rahab (Rachab) was his wife and the mother of Boaz (Booz) (Matthew 1:5).

SANBALLAT A Horonite who was opposed to the welfare of the children of Israel after their return to Jerusalem from Babylonian exile (Nehemiah 2:10). He was the father of a woman who married one of the sons of Joiada, the son of the high priest Eliashib (Nehemiah 13:28).

SARAH (SARAI) Daughter of Terah and wife and half-sister of Abraham (Genesis 11:24-27; Genesis 20:1, 12). Late in life she had a child, Isaac (Genesis 21:1-7). When Sarah and Abraham were in Gerar, the King of Gerar, Abimelech, was attracted to Sarah. Abraham claimed that she was his sister (which was true) because he was afraid that if the people of that country thought she was his wife they would kill him (?). So Abimelech "took" her, but did not "touch" her, and when God warned him in a dream Abimelech returned her to Abraham, along with many riches (Genesis 20:1-18). (See Sarah's daughter-in-law, Rebekah, for a similar event.)

SARAI (see SARAH)

SAUL First annointed king of the unified kingdom.

SEBA One of the six sons of Cush (Genesis 10:7).

SEGUB A son of Hezron through a later-in-life marriage of Hezron to an unnamed daughter of Machir (the father of Gilead). Segub was the father of Jair (I Chronicles 2:21-22).

SEPHATIAH One of the sons of king Jehoshaphat of Judah who was killed by their brother, Jehoram (Joram) as an attempt to consolidate his position as king (II Chronicles 21:1-4).

SERUG A son of Reu and father of Nahor, Abraham's grandfather (Genesis 11:20-26).

SERAIAH A chief priest in the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Azariah and the father of Jehozadak (I Chronicles 6:14), and was killed by the king of Babylon (II Kings 25:18-21)

SETH ("put i.e. substituted") Third son of Eve and Adam: "And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew" (Genesis 4:25). Seth was the father of Enos and other (unnamed) sons and daughters (Genesis 5:6-8).

SHALLUM A son of Sisamai and father of Jekamiah (in the line of Sheshan through his daughter, Ahlai, and his Egyptian servant, Jarha (I Chronicles 2:34-41).

SHALLUM A king of Israel.

SHALLUM (JEHOAHAZ)A king of Judah.

SHALLUM In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Zadok and the father of Hilkiah (I Chronicles 6:12-13).

SHAMARIAH A son of king Rehoboam by his wife, Abihail (II Chronicles 11:18-19).

SHAMMAI Son of Onam and father of Nadab (I Chronicles 2:28).

SHAMMUA (SHIMEA) A son of King David by Bathsheba (II Samuel 12:11-18).

SHAPHAN Father of Ahikam; Ahikam was the father of Gedeliah.

SHEBA One of the thirteen sons of Joktan (Genesis 10:25-30).

SHEBA A son of Raamah and brother of Dedan and grandson of Cush (Genesis 10:7; I Chronicles 1:9).

SHEBA A son of Jokshan and brother of Dedan and grandson of Abraham by Ketura (Genesis 25:3; I Chronicles 1:32).

SHEBUEL Son of Gershom and grandson of Moses and Zipporah.

SHECHEM A son of Hamor the Hivite, he raped Dinah the daughter of Jacob. Claiming that he wanted Dinah as his wife, a marriage was arranged provided that all the Hivite males of the place be circumcized. Two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, taking advantage of the pain of the circumcized Hivites, then slaughtered them all. Jacob was, however, not pleased (Genesis 34).

SHELEPH One of the thirteen sons of Joktan (Genesis 10:25-30).

SHELOMITH Son of king Rehoboam and bother of king Abija of Judah (II Chronicles 11:18-20).

SHELOMITH A daughter of Zerubabbel and grandson of Pedaiah (I Chronicles 3:19).

SHEM One of the three sons of Noah (Genesis 5:32). Shem was the father of Elam, Asshur, Arphaxahad, Lud and Aram (Genesis 10:22).

SHENAZAR A son of Jehoiachin king of Judah.

SHEPHATIAH A son of king David by Abital.

SHESHAN A son of Ishi and the father of a daughter, Ahlai (I Chronicles 2:31). Having no natural son, he appears to have continued his line by giving his daughter (in "marriage") to his Egyptian servant, Jarha (I Chronicles 2:34-35).

SHILI Father of Azubah, wife of king Asa of Judah.

SHIMEI A son of Pedaiah (I Chronicles 3:19) and grandson of Jehoiachin (Jeconiah) (I Chronicles 3:17-18) king of Judah (Esther 2:6).

SISAMAI A son of Eleasah and father of Shallum (in the line of Sheshan through his daughter, Ahlai, and his Egyptian servant, Jarha (I Chronicles 2:34-40).

SHENAZAR A son of king Jehoiachin of Judah.

SHEPHATIAH Brother of king Jehoram of Judah.

SHESHAN Having no sons, Sheshan gave his daughter to his Egyptian servant, Jarha (and thereby was able to continue his genealogical line?).

SHOBAB a son of king David by Bathsheba (II Samuel 12:11-18).

SHUAH A son of Abraham by his concubine Ketura (Genesis 25:1-2; I Chronicles 1:32).

SIDON The first-born son of Canaan and a grandson of Noah (Genesis 10:1, 15).

SIMEON The second-born of Jacob's 12 sons, and "founder" of one of the "tribes" of Israel, his mother was Leah (Genesis 29:31-33).Because he and Levi had killed Shechem, who had raped their sister Dinah and then arranged a marriage with her Genesis 34), they lost their birth-order rights to their brother Judah (Genesis 49:1-12).

SOLOMON King of the unified kingdom, Solomon was a son of king David by Bathsheba. He had 700 wives and 300 concubines.

TAMAR Wife of Judah's firstborn son, Er. (Genesis 38:6). When God killed Er (Genesis 38:7), the levirate custom was followed and she married Onan. When Onan displeased God, he was killed also (Genesis 38:8-10). Later, Tamar contrived to have twins, Pharez and Zarah by her father-in-law, Judah (Genesis 38:11-30).

TAMAR Named as a beloved sister of Absalom (II Samuel 13:1), she was raped by her half-brother, Amnon (II Samuel 13:11-15). Absalom later arranged to have Amnon killed(II Samuel 13:28-29).

TAMAR A daughter of Absalom (II Samuel 14:27).

TARSHISH One of the four sons of Javan (Genesis 10:4).

TEMA One of the twelve sons of Ishmael (I Chronicles 1:29-30).

TERAH A son of Nahor, he was father Nahor, Haran and Abraham (Genesis 11:24-27). He was also father of Sara (Sarai), Abraham's wife through a woman other than Abraham's mother (Genesis 20:11-12).

TIMNAH Concubine of Esau's son Eliphaz, she was mother of Amelek (Genesis 36:12).

TIRAS One of the seven sons of Japheth (Genesis 10:2).

TOGARMAH One of the three sons of Gomer (Genesis 10:3).

TUBAL One of the seven sons of Japheth (Genesis 10:2).

TUBALCAIN A son of Lamech by Zillah. "And Zillah [*a wife of Lamech*], she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron"(Genesis 4:22).

URIAH The first husband of Bathsheba. King David had him sent to the front lines of battle so that he would be killed and David could take Bathsheba to wife (II Samuel 11:3-27).

UZ One of the four sons of Aram (Genesis 10:23).

UZAL One of the thirteen sons of Joktan (Genesis 10:25-30).

UZZIAH King of Judah.

ZABAD A son of Nathan and father of Ephlal (in the line of Sheshan through his daughter, Ahlai, and his Egyptian servant, Jarha (I Chronicles 2:34-36).

ZADOC Father of Jerushah who was the wife of king Uzziah of Judah.

ZADOK In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Ahitub and the father of Ahimaaz (I Chronicles 6:8).

ZADOK In the Levitical line of Eleazer, he was the son of Ahitub and the father of Shallum (I Chronicles 6:12).

ZAHAM A son of king Rehoboam by his wife, Abihail (II Chronicles 11:18-19).

ZEBULUN The tenth-born of Jacob's 12 sons, and "founder" of one of the "tribes" of Israel, he was the sixth-born son of Jacob's first wife, Leah (Genesis 30:16-20).

ZECHARIAH One of the sons of king Jehoshaphat of Judah who was killed by their brother, Jehoram (Joram) as an attempt to consolidate his position as king (II Chronicles 21:1-4).

ZECHARIAH Son of Jehoiada.

ZECHARIAH King of Israel and son of king Jereboam of Israel.

ZECHERIAH Father of Abijah who was the wife of king Ahaz.

ZEDEKIAH (MATTANIAH) A king of Judah following King Jehoiachin (Jechoniah) (II Chronicles 36:9-11), he was son of King Josiah (I Chronicles 3:15; Jeremiah 1:3).

ZEDEKIAH ? The source is ambiguous here: "And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son" (I Chronicles 3:16). Zedekiah is either the son of king Jehoiakim (Eliakim) of Judah, or the son of Jehoiakim's son, Jeconiah (Jehoiachin). Another interpretation is that Zedekiah was the son of Jeconiah, but that "son" in this case meant "successor" (John D. Davis, A DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE, 4th revised edition, Baker Book House,Grand Rapids, 1960, p. 834)--in which case this Zedekiah is the same person as the Zedekiah listed immediately above (the son of neither Jehoiakim, nor of Jeconiah, but of Josiah).

ZERUAH Wife of Nebat who was the father of Jereboam, king of Israel.

ZERUBABBEL A son of Pedaiah (I Chronicles 3:19) and grandson of Jehoiachin (Jeconiah) (I Chronicles 3:17-18) king of Judah (Esther 2:6), he was the father of sons, Meshullam, and Hananiah, and a daughter, Shelomith (1 Chronicles 3:19) and five other sons, Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushabhesed (1 Chronicles 3:20).

ZIBEON A Hivite and ancestor (grandfather?) of Aholibamah who was a wife of Esau (Genesis 36:2).

ZIBIAH Wife of king Ahaziah of Israel.

ZILLAH A wife of Lamech, son of Methusael. Genesis 4 (18) "... and Methusael begat Lamech ..." [This Lamech is a descendant of Cain] (19) "And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah."

ZILPAH ("to trickle")

ZIMRAN A son of Abraham by his concubine Ketura (Genesis 25:1-2; I Chronicles 1:32).

ZIMRI King of Israel.

ZIPPORAH The daughter of Jethro (Reuel)(Exodus 2:18-21), a priest of Midian (Exodus 3:1), she was the first wife of Moses (Exodus 2:21).

ZIZA Brother of king Abijah of Israel.

ZOHAR The father of Ephron and apparently a descendant of Heth, he was called a "Hittite" (Genesis 25:9-10).

ZUBUDAH A wife of king Josiah of Judah.

ABIJAH: FOURTEEN WIVES

ABSALOM: THREE SONS (II Samuel 14:27) (two daughters, Maachah and Tamar, are named).

BATHSHEBA: FIRST-BORN SON (II Samuel 12:11-18). Died shortly after birth.

CAIN: WIFE WHO GAVE BIRTH TO ENOCH (Genesis 4:17).

DAVID: CONCUBINES

DAVID: SONS OF CONCUBINES

ELEAZER: DAUGHTERS The daughters of Eleazer married their patrilateral parallel cousins, the (also unnamed) sons of their fathers' brother, Kish (I Chronicles 23:21-22).

GIDEON: CONCUBINE A woman from Shechem, she was mother of Abimelech who killed all but one of the other sons of Gideon (Judges 8:31; 9:5).

GIDEON: WIVES Gideon had seventy sons to "many wives" (Judges 8:30).

HARAN: WIFE

HEZRON: WIFE / DAUGHTER OF MACHIR

ISHMAEL: WIFE FROM EGYPT Hagar, Ishmael's mother found an Egyptian wife for him (Genesis 21:17-21).

JOASH: WIFE

JOIADA: SON An unnamed son of Joiada, of the priestly line of Levites, violated the norms of the time by marrying an unnamed daughter of Sanballat, a "strange" (foreign) woman (Nehemiah 13:27-29).

KISH: SONS The sons of Kish married their patrilateral parallel cousins, the (also unnamed) daughters of their father's brother, Eleazer (I Chronicles 23:21-22).

LOT: TWO DAUGHTERS Lot had two daughters who escaped the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah with him. Their husbands did not escape with them. To "preserve the seed" of their father the two women got their father drunk, had sexual intercourse with him and, as a consequence, bore him two sons: Moab and Benammi (Genesis 19:12-36).

LOT: SONS-IN-LAW Apparently they did not believe that Sodom would be destroyed and remained there as Lot and his wife and two daughters left (Genesis 19:14).

LOT: WIFE She is mentioned several times including at her death when she looked back at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, but is never named (Genesis 19:15-26).

MANESSEH: CONCUBINE

MOSES: ETHOPIAN WOMAN AS WIFE Moses took an unnamed Ethopian as a second wife. This marriage was opposed by the sister of Moses, Miriam (see MIRIAM). No children are recorded for this union.

NAJOR AND MILCAH: SONS Indicated, but not named on the diagram, are Kemuel, Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, and Jidlaph (Genesis 22:20-23).

REHOBOAM: SIXTY CONCUBINES (II Chronicles 11:18-21).

REHOBOAM: FIFTEEN WIVES Rehoboam had eighteen wives, only three of them named.(II Chronicles 11:18-21).

SANBALLAT: DAUGHTER An unnamed son of Joiada, of the priestly line of Levites, violated the norms of the time by marrying a daughter of Sanballat, a "strange" (foreign) woman (Nehemiah 13:27-29).

SOLOMON: SEVEN-HUNDRED WIVES

SOLOMON: THREE-HUNDRED CONCUBINES

"STRANGE WIFE" A daughter of Sanballat, the Horonite, she married one of the sons of Joiada, much to the displeasure of Nehemiah, who "chased him out from me" (Nehemiah 13:28)

TERAH: TWO WIVES Terah was the father of Nahor, Haran, Abraham and Abraham's wife, Sarah. Because Abraham and Sarah were half-siblings with the same father, Terah must have produced children through at least two women. No indication is available as to which mother (of Abraham, of Sarah) was mother of Nahor or Haran (see ABRAHAM, SARAH).

ZELOPHEHAD: BROTHERS Because Zelophehad had no sons, his daughters married the sons of his brothers (see ZELOPHEHAD: DAUGHTERS). His brothers are not named in the Bible

ZELOPHEHAD: BROTHER'S SONS Because Zelophehad had no sons, his daughters married the sons of his brothers (see ZELOPHEHAD: DAUGHTERS). His brother's sons are not named in the Bible

ZELOPHEHAD: DAUGHTERS Zelophehad had no sons and five daughters. In order to keep their inheritance in Zelophehad's tribe/family they married their parallel cousins, the sons of Zelophehad's brothers. The daughters of Zelophehad are named in the Bible; they are Mahla, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah (Numbers 26:33; 27:1-11; 36:1-12; Joshua 17:3)).

ZIZA Son of king Rehoboam of Judah and brother of king Abijah (II Chronicles 11:17-20).