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Joktan

Time-period: ❷ Noa-Abraham (3000 – 2000 f.Kr.)
Age: -
Alt. names/spellings: Joktan
Father: Heber
Siblings: Peleg
children (14): Ebal, Almodad, Sheleph, Hazar-maveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, Jobab

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Joktan H3355
יׇקְטָן (Joqtan)
6 times in OT
Total    6 times

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  • Heber

    Extra: Was an ancestor to Christ.

    Heber
    • Joktan

      child nr: 2

      • Ebal

        order of birth not available

        Ebal
      • Almodad

        Joktan's firstborn

        Almodad
      • Sheleph

        Joktan's child nr: 2

        Sheleph
      • Hazar-maveth

        Joktan's child nr: 3

        Hazar-maveth
      • Jerah

        Joktan's child nr: 4

        Jerah
      • Hadoram

        Joktan's child nr: 5

        Hadoram
      • Uzal

        Joktan's child nr: 6

        Uzal
      • Diklah

        Joktan's child nr: 7

        Diklah
      • Obal

        Joktan's child nr: 8

        Obal
      • Abimael

        Joktan's child nr: 9

        Abimael
      • Sheba

        Joktan's child nr: 10

        Sheba
      • Ophir

        Joktan's child nr: 11

        Ophir
      • Havilah

        Joktan's child nr: 12

        Havilah
      • Jobab

        Joktan's child nr: 13

        Jobab

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Gen 10:25
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Two sons were born to Eber:
The name of one was Peleg [similar to the word for "divided"], for in his days the earth was divided (Hebr. pilag), and his brother's name was Joktan.
[Peleg's lineage continues in Gen. 11:16–26 and leads to Abraham's father Terah. Peleg means division. It could very well be that what is written here, that the earth was divided in his days, refers to the division of Pangea into the different continents with oceans between them, as we know them today. In that case, this division occurred about 100 years after the flood. See also the end of verse 32.]
Gen 10:26
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[Eber's second son] Joktan had:
Almodad and
Shelef and
Chatsarmavet [people in South Arabia] and
Jerach
Gen 10:29
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and
Ophir and
Havilah (Hebr. Chavila) and
Jovav,
all these were the sons of Joktan.
1 Ch 1:19
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Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg [similar to the word for "divided"], because in his time the earth was divided [Hebr. pilag] [Gen. 10:25; 11:16–19]. His brother was named Joktan.
1 Ch 1:20
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Joktan became the father of Almodad, Shelef, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
1 Ch 1:23
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Ophir, Havilah (Hebr. Chavila), and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.