Jerah

In Bible versions:

Jerah: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

son of Joktan of Shem

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the moon; month; smelling sweet

Hebrew

Strongs #03392: xry Yerach

Jerah = "new moon"

1) a 4th son of Joktan and a progenitor of an Arabian tribe

3392 Yerach yeh'-rakh

the same as 3391; Jerach, an Arabian patriarch:-Jerah.
see HEBREW for 03391

Jerah [NAVE]

JERAH, son of Joktan, Gen. 10:26; 1 Chr. 1:20.

JERAH [SMITH]

(the moon), the fourth in order of the sons of Joktan, (Genesis 10:26; 1 Chronicles 1:20) and the progenitor of a tribe of southern Arabia.

JERAH [ISBE]

JERAH - je'-ra (yerach): A son of Joktan (Gen 10:26 parallel 1 Ch 1:20). No district Jerah has been discovered. However, Yurakh in Yemen and Yarach in Hijaz are places named by the Arabic geographers. The fact that the word in Hebrew means "moon" has led to the following suggestions: the Banu Hilal ("sons of the new moon") in the North of Yemen; Ghubb el-Qamar ("the bay of the moon"), Jebel el-Qamar ("the mountains of the moon") in Eastern Chadramant. But in Southern Arabia worship of the moon has caused the word to bulk largely in place-names.