Peleg

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Peleg: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

a son of Eber; the father of Reu; an ancestor of Jesus.
son of Eber of Shem

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division ( --> same as Phalec)

Greek

Strongs #5317: falek Phalek

Peleg = "division"

1) the son of Eber

5317 Phalek fal'-ek

of Hebrew origin (6389); Phalek (i.e. Peleg), a patriarch:-Phalec.
see HEBREW for 06389

Hebrew

Strongs #06389: glp Peleg

Peleg = "division"

1) son of Eber and brother of Joktan

6389 Peleg peh'-leg

the same as 6388; earthquake; Peleg, a son of Shem:-Peleg.
see HEBREW for 06388

Peleg [EBD]

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.

Peleg [NAVE]

PELEG, son of Eber, Gen. 10:25; 11:16-19; 1 Chr. 1:19, 25.

PELEG [SMITH]

(division, part), son of Eber and brother of Joktan. (Genesis 10:25; 11:16) The only incident connected with his history is the statement that "in his days was the earth divided." an event embodied in the meaning of his name --"division." The reference is to a division of the family of Eber himself, the younger branch of which (the Joktanids) migrated into southern Arabia, while the elder remained in Mesopotamia.

PELEG [ISBE]

PELEG - pe'-leg (pelegh, "watercourse," "division"): A son of Eber, and brother of Joktan. The derivation of the name is given: "for in his days was the earth divided" (niphleghah) (Gen 10:25; compare Lk 3:35, the King James Version "Phalec"). This probably refers to the scattering of the world's population and the confounding of its language recorded in Gen 11:1-9. In Aramaic pelagh and Arabic phalaj mean "division"; in Hebrew pelegh means "watercourse." The name may really be due to the occupation by this people of some well-watered (furrowed), district (e.g. in Babylonia), for these patronymics represent races, and the derivation in Gen 10:25 is a later editor's remark.

S. F. Hunter