Ancient Characters

Enoch ★

Enoch is the seventh patriarch from Adam, a righteous scribe and prophet who was taken directly into heaven without dyin...

Methuselah ★

Methuselah is the son of Enoch and grandfather of Noah, entrusted with preserving his father's prophetic writings throug...

Noah ★

Noah is the righteous patriarch chosen to survive the great Flood, building the Ark at divine command to preserve life t...

The Watchers ★

The Watchers are two hundred angels who swore an oath on Mount Hermon to descend to earth, take human wives, and share f...

Semjâzâ ★

Semjaza is the leader of the two hundred Watchers who organized the descent from heaven, swearing the oath on Mount Herm...

Azazel ★

Azazel is the Watcher who taught humanity the arts of war and vanity - metallurgy, weapons, cosmetics, and dyes - and is...

Michael ★

Michael is the chief archangel, protector of Israel, who is commanded to bind the leader Semjaza and his fallen companio...

Uriel ★

Uriel is the archangel of luminaries and cosmic order, who guides Enoch through the heavens and reveals the precise move...

Raphael ★

Raphael is the archangel of healing, specifically charged with binding Azazel in the desert of Dudael and restoring the ...

Gabriel ★

Gabriel is the archangel of war and destruction, sent to incite the giants to destroy one another and to execute judgmen...

Son of Man ★

The Son of Man is the preexistent messianic figure revealed in the Parables of Enoch, chosen before creation to sit on t...

Moses ★

Moses is the deliverer of Israel from Egyptian bondage, the lawgiver at Sinai, and the one to whom the Angel of the Pres...

Angel of the Presence ★

The Angel of the Presence is the celestial being who stands before God's throne and dictates the entire Book of Jubilees...

Abraham ★

Abraham is the patriarch called out of idol-worshipping Ur to receive the covenant promises of land, descendants, and bl...

Jacob (Israel) ★

Jacob is the younger twin of Esau who received the birthright and blessing, journeyed to Haran, wrestled with an angel, ...

Joseph ★

Joseph is the favored son of Jacob, sold into slavery by his brothers, who rose to govern Egypt through divinely-given d...

Nimrod ★

Nimrod is the mighty hunter-king who built Babel and established tyrannical rule after the Flood - the quintessential fi...

Mastema ★

Mastema is the chief evil spirit in the Book of Jubilees - an accuser figure who receives limited authority from God to ...

Adam

Adam is the first human, formed from dust and placed in the Garden of Eden, whose transgression and expulsion set in mot...

Eve

Eve is the first woman, created alongside Adam in the Garden, whose story in Jubilees emphasizes the sacred boundaries o...

Cain

Cain is Adam's firstborn who murdered his brother Abel and was cursed to wander - his line in Jasher represents the prog...

Abel

Abel is Adam's second son, the righteous shepherd whose murder by Cain represents the first human violence - his blood s...

Seth

Seth is Adam's third son, born after Abel's murder, who becomes the bearer of the righteous lineage through which Enoch,...

Lamech

Lamech is Noah's father who, according to 1 Enoch 106-107, was alarmed at Noah's unusual birth and consulted his own fat...

Shem

Shem is Noah's eldest son who receives the central and most blessed portion of the earth in the division described in Ju...

Sarah

In the expanded patriarchal histories preserved within the Book of Jubilees and the Book of Jasher, the figure of Abraha...

Isaac

Isaac is Abraham's promised son, the child of the covenant whose near-sacrifice on Moriah tested his father's faith and ...

Rebekah

In the retellings of the patriarchal stories found within Jubilees and Jasher, the figure of Isaac's wife emerges as a p...

Esau

Esau is Jacob's elder twin who sold his birthright and lost the blessing, becoming the ancestor of Edom and a figure of ...

Leah

In the expanded patriarchal narratives preserved in Jubilees and Jasher, the figure of Jacob's first wife emerges as a p...

Rachel

Within the expansive retellings of Israel's ancestral history preserved in the Book of Jubilees and the Book of Jasher, ...

Levi

Levi is Jacob's third son, chosen for the eternal priesthood after the Shechem incident, whose consecration in Jubilees ...

Judah

Judah is Jacob's fourth son who emerges as a warrior-leader in Jasher's account of the war with Esau, personally strikin...

Lot

Lot is Abraham's nephew who settled in Sodom, was rescued by angels before its destruction, and whose story illustrates ...

Terah

Terah is Abraham's father, an idol-maker in Ur of the Chaldees whose household represents the idolatrous world that Abra...

Rikayon

In the expansive retellings of patriarchal history preserved in the Book of Jasher, the Egyptian court during the era of...

Hedad

Within the apocryphal accounts preserved in the Book of Jasher, the moral decay of Sodom serves as a vivid illustration ...

Zelicah (Potiphar's Wife)

In the rich tapestry of Second Temple pseudepigraphal literature, the apocryphal expansions of the Joseph cycle serve to...

Pharaoh

Pharaoh is the title of the Egyptian monarch who enslaved Israel and resisted God's commands through Moses - portrayed i...

Aaron

Aaron is Moses' brother and Israel's first high priest, whose consecration established the Levitical priesthood describe...

Joshua

Joshua is Moses' successor who leads Israel across the Jordan into the promised land, conducting the conquest of Canaan ...

Laban

Laban is Rebekah's brother and Jacob's uncle in Haran, who employed Jacob for twenty years through deception - substitut...

Ishmael

Ishmael is Abraham's firstborn son through Hagar the Egyptian - blessed with the promise of becoming a great nation but ...

Simeon

Simeon is Jacob's second son who, together with Levi, avenges the defilement of their sister Dinah by massacring the men...

Benjamin

Benjamin is Jacob's youngest son and the only full brother of Joseph - the child whose birth cost Rachel her life and wh...

Haran (Brother of Abraham)

Haran is Abraham's brother who perishes in the fiery furnace at Ur - condemned alongside Abraham but lacking the faith t...

Balaam

Balaam is the sorcerer-prophet hired to curse Israel but compelled by God to bless them instead - a complex figure who p...

Shechem

Shechem is the Hivite prince who defiles Dinah daughter of Jacob and then seeks to marry her - an act that provokes the ...

Reuben

Reuben is Jacob's firstborn who loses his birthright through transgression - yet shows compassion by attempting to save ...

Dinah

Dinah is Jacob's daughter whose defilement by Prince Shechem triggers one of the most violent episodes in the patriarcha...

Ham

Ham is Noah's second son whose act of dishonoring his father after the Flood - and whose descendant Canaan's illegal sei...

Japheth

Japheth is Noah's third son who receives the northern portions of the earth in the post-flood division - his descendants...

Potiphar

Potiphar is the Egyptian officer who purchases Joseph as a slave and elevates him to oversee his entire household - only...

Tamar

Tamar is Judah's daughter-in-law who, denied her levirate rights, disguises herself to conceive by Judah - an act of des...

Zipporah

Zipporah is Moses' wife, daughter of Reuel (Jethro) the priest of Midian - given to Moses after years of imprisonment an...

Miriam

Miriam is Moses' sister who watches over him as an infant in the Nile and later serves as a prophetess during the Exodus...

Jared

Jared is Enoch's father whose name means 'descent' in Hebrew - marking the generation in which the Watchers fell from he...

Keturah

Keturah is Abraham's wife after Sarah's death, through whom he fathers six sons - expanding his legacy beyond the covena...

Melchizedek

Melchizedek is the mysterious priest-king of Salem who blesses Abraham after the war of the kings - appearing without ge...

Zepho

Zepho was one of the sons of Eliphaz the son of Esau, born in the land of Canaan. The sons of Jacob took Zepho and his p...

Abimelech

Abimelech is the king of the Philistines at Gerar. Isaac went to him during a famine, and Abimelech charged that any man...

Eliphaz

Eliphaz was the son of Esau and Adah, born when Esau was sixty-five years old. Esau secretly commanded him to pursue Jac...

Eliezer

Eliezer is called Dammasek Eliezer, the son of Maseq and of Abram's handmaid, and Abram names him as heir while still ch...

Tubal

Tubal is one of the sons of Japheth, listed among the sons of Noah. For Tubal there came forth the fifth portion in the ...

Hamor

Hamor is the father of Shechem and is identified as a Hivite and the prince of the land. He is the son of Chiddekem. She...

Naphtali

Naphtali is one of the sons of Jacob, born to Bilhah the handmaid of Rachel. He is listed among the sons of Jacob alongs...

Jashub

Jashub was the king of Tapnach who learned that two young men had destroyed the city of Shechem. He sent messengers to c...

Hadad

Hadad is named as the son of Ishmael and father of Aphlal, whose daughter Adon married Asher. Separately, Hadad the son ...

Nahor

Nahor was born and grew up dwelling in Ur of the Chaldees, where his father taught him the researches of the Chaldees to...

Reuel

Reuel appears as a son of Chanoch among the sons of Epher. He is also named as a son born to Esau by Bosmath the daughte...

Hagar

Hagar is the Egyptian maid of Sarai. Sarai gave her to Abram to be his wife so that Sarai might build up seed by her. Sh...

Satan

Satan is associated with instruments prepared by angels of punishment. A tenth part of the malignant evil ones were left...

Sihon

Sihon was king of the Amorites. The Lord smote his heart and he waged war, going forth to fight against the children of ...

Beor

Beor is the father of Balaq, who reigned in Edom with his city Danaba. Beor is the firstborn son of Laban and was sent o...

Issachar

Issachar is a son of Jacob and Leah, born on the fourth of the fifth month in the fourth year of the fourth week. He is ...

Ephraim

Ephraim is one of the two sons born to Joseph and his wife Osnath the daughter of Potiphera, when Joseph was thirty-four...

Asher

Asher was a son of Jacob born to Zilpah, the handmaid of Leah, who named him Asher. He is listed among the sons of Jacob...

Eber

Eber was a son born in the fifth year 1503 A.M. and he took a wife named Azurad, the daughter of Nebrod. Shelach begat E...

Gad

Gad is a son of Jacob born to Zilpah, the handmaid of Leah. Leah named him Gad after Zilpah conceived and bare him on th...

Heth

Heth is listed among the sons of Canaan. The children and sons of Heth were inhabitants of the land; Abraham spoke with ...

Bethuel

Bethuel is the son of Nahor, the brother of Abraham. He is the father of Rebecca and of Laban the Syrian. His house is i...

Bilhah

Bilhah was the sister of Zilpah and was given by Laban to Rachel as a handmaid. Rachel gave Bilhah to Jacob as her handm...

Cainan

Cainan was the son of Enos and an ancestor of Enoch in the line from Adam through Seth. He grew up to become wise with k...

Azdrubal

Azdrubal was the son of Angeas. He fled with his father and was pursued by Zepho and the children of Chittim, who smote ...

Chedorlaomer

Chedorlaomer was king of Elam who subdued the families of the children of Ham and the five cities of the plain. The peop...

Zebulun

Zebulun was a son of Leah and one of the sons of Jacob, listed with his brothers Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar a...

Manasseh

Manasseh was a son of Joseph born in Egypt to Asenath (also called Osnath), daughter of Potiphar priest of Heliopolis, a...

Bela

Bela was a man from the house of Ashur who went from Ninevah and built a small city named Bela after himself, known as t...

Arpachshad

Arpachshad was a son of Shem born two years after the flood. He took as wife Rasu'eja, daughter of Susan and granddaught...

Asshur

Asshur is listed among the sons of Shem, alongside Elam, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. Arpachshad was born two years after ...

Ephron

Ephron the Hittite, son of Zochar, dwelt among the children of Heth. Abraham sought from him the cave of Machpelah at th...

Amram

Amram was a man in the land of Egypt of the seed of Levi, the son of Kehath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel. He is c...

Deborah

Deborah is identified as Rebecca's nurse who accompanied Rebecca and Jacob to Bethel. She died on the twenty-third of th...

Job

Job is listed as one of the four sons born to Issachar, together with Tola, Puvah and Shomron. A separate Job appears as...

Phanuel

Phanuel is named with Michael, Raphael and Gabriel as one of the chief angels. With them Phanuel shall take hold of the ...

Mahalalel

Mahalalel is the son of Cainan and the father of Jared, making him the grandfather of Enoch. Enoch lay in the house of h...

Magog

Magog is listed as one of the sons of Japheth, son of Noah. He appears among the seven sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Ma...

Reu

Reu was the son of Peleg and Lomna the daughter of Sina'ar. He took a wife named Ora the daughter of Ur the son of Kesed...

Perez

Perez was one of the twin sons born to Judah, the firstborn twin alongside Zerah. He is named among the sons of Judah as...

Enosh

Enosh was the son of Seth, who named him when the sons of men began to multiply and transgress. In the days of Enosh the...

Gera

Gera is named among the sons of Benjamin, listed with Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim and Ard. S...

Beriah

Beriah is listed among the sons of Asher, together with Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi and their sister Serah. The sons of Beriah ...

Mahlallel

Mahlallel is the firstborn son of Cainan and brother to Enan, Mered, Adah, and Zillah. He lived sixty-five years and beg...

Naamah

Naamah was a daughter born and named for the pleasure and delight obtained after withering away. Noah chose her as his w...

Zillah

Zillah is a daughter of Cainan and sister of Adah, Mahlallel, Enan and Mered. She was barren with no offspring until the...

Yoktan

Yoktan was the second son, named because in his day the lives of the sons of men were diminished and lessened. His sons ...

Anuki

Anuki was a wise servant of the king who answered him concerning a dream. He declared it to be the evil of Abram and his...

Shelach

Shelach was a son of Arpachshad in the generations of Shem. Arpachshad begat Shelach and Shelach begat Eber. Shelach the...

Adinah

Adinah was the wife of Laban who conceived and bare twin daughters, the elder Leah and the younger Rachel. Laban had no ...

Korah

Korah was one of three sons born to Esau by Ahlibamah, alongside Yeush and Yaalan. The sons of this Korah were Teman, Mi...

Kehath

Kehath was one of the three sons born to Levi and Adinah, along with Gershon and Merari. He was the father of Amram and ...

Japhia

Japhia was king of Hebron who sent secretly to the kings of Ai, Gibeon, Shalem, Adulam, Lachish and Chazar. The kings of...

Manassah

Manassah is the son of Joseph who remained with him when others fled in fear. He saw the strength of Simeon and grew exc...

Chushim

Chushim was the son born to Aphlaleth the wife of Dan after God remembered her barrenness. He was the son of Dan the son...

Hadurah

Hadurah was the daughter of Abimael, the son of Eber, the son of Shem. After the death of Adon, Asher took her as a wife...

Serach

Serach was the daughter born to Hadurah and Malkiel, later brought as a three-year-old with Hadurah when Asher took her ...

Adoniah

Adoniah is the Cushite queen and wife of Kikianus. The people and nobles gave her to Moses as a wife when they made him ...

Samlah

Samlah from Mesrekah, from the country of the children of the east, reigned as king of Edom in place of Hadad the son of...

Baal

Baal Chanan son of Achbor became king of Edom after the death of Saul and reigned over all the children of Edom for thir...

Nun

Nun is the father of Joshua. The verses identify Joshua as the son of Nun, the Ephrathite and servant of Moses. Joshua s...

Zilpah

Zilpah is the handmaid of Laban whom he gave to his daughter Leah when Leah was given to Jacob as a wife. She is the sis...

Bedad

Bedad is named as the father of Hadad, who reigned as king of Edom after Chusham died. Hadad son of Bedad ruled for thir...

Mitzraim

Mitzraim is listed as one of the four sons of Ham, together with Cush, Phut and Canaan. His own sons are given as Lud, A...

Onan

Onan was the brother of Er and a son of Judah. Judah told Onan to go in unto his brother's wife and perform the duty of ...

Adikam

Adikam was the second son of the king, listed with brothers Othri and Morion and sisters Bathia and Acuzi. He was a cunn...

Jobab

Jobab the son of Zara of Boser reigned after Balaq died and later died himself, after which Asam of Teman reigned. Jobab...

Zoba

Zoba was the son of Terah and his wife Pelilah, born in Terah's old age. Terah lived twenty-five years after he begat Zo...

Jania

Jania was the only daughter of Uzu, a man from the city of Puzimna in the land of Chittim. Messengers from Turnus king o...

Bathia

Bathia is the daughter of Pharaoh who went to bathe in the river owing to the heat and saw an ark upon the water. She se...

Javan

Javan is one of the sons of Japheth and thus a grandson of Noah. He is listed among the seven sons of Japheth in the gen...

Peleg

Peleg was born in the sixth year 1567 A.M. and named thus because in the days when he was born the children of Noah bega...

Kesed

Kesed is the father of Mu'ak, who became the wife of Shelah. He is also the father of Ur, who built the city of Ara of t...

Lud

Lud is named as one of the sons of Shem, listed with Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad and Aram. He received the fifth portion of...

Elon

Elon is named as one of the sons of Zebulon, together with Sered and Jahleel. Elon is also identified as the king of Gaa...

Tarshish

Tarshish was one of the sons of Javan. The children of Tarshish came against the sons of Ishmael and made war with them,...

Chiddekem

Chiddekem is the son of Pered and the father of Hamor the Hivite. He and his six brothers refused to listen to Shechem a...

Amalek

Amalek was the son of Eliphaz the son of Esau, born to Timna after she became Eliphaz's concubine. He came to fight Isra...

Balak

Balak the son of Zippor the Moabite was chosen by the elders of Moab and made king over them. He was a very wise man. As...

Anibal

Anibal was the son of Angeas and the younger brother of Azdrubal. After Azdrubal's death the inhabitants of Africa made ...

Madai

Madai is listed among the sons of Japheth, who are sons of Noah. He is the father of Melka. As his portion he received l...

Paltith

Paltith is the daughter of Lot, born to his wife at the time God delivered Lot and his household from the kings of Elam....

Anah

Anah is named as a son of Seir the Horite and also as a son of Zibeon. He received Marzith as a wife and is identified a...

Saul

Saul of Ra'aboth by the river reigned after Salman and later died, after which Ba'elunan son of Achbor reigned. Saul was...

Ashur

Ashur is named as a son of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid and wife of Jacob, who bore unto Jacob Gad and Ashur. Ashur is also l...

Elazer

Elazer is the son of Aaron the priest and father of Phineas. After the pestilence the Lord spoke to Moses and to Elazer....

Achan

Achan was the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, son of Judah. He dealt treacherously by taking of the ac...

Meshech

Meshech is one of the sons of Japheth and a grandson of Noah. He is listed among the seven sons of Japheth. The sons of ...

Shelah

Shelah was a son born in 1432 A.M. who grew up and married Mu'ak, the daughter of Kesed. A different Shelah was the son ...

Achbor

Achbor is the father of Ba'elunan, also called Baal Chanan, who reigned over Edom after Saul died. Ba'elunan the son of ...

Jochebed

Jochebed is the mother who was called to nurse the child and received wages for doing so. She is the sister of Gershon, ...

Serug

Serug was so named because every one turned to do all manner of sin and transgression. Yen begat Serug, and Serug begat ...

Adah

Adah was a daughter of Cainan and sister of Mahlallel, Enan, Mered, and Zillah. Lamech took her as one of his two wives ...

Caleb

Caleb the son of Jephuneh explored the land with Joshua the son of Nun and declared it exceedingly good. He was excepted...

Nebayoth

Nebayoth is the firstborn son of Ishmael, borne to him by Ribah along with Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam and their sister Bosmat...

Mizraim

Mizraim was a son of Ham who parted from his father together with his brothers Cush, Put and Canaan. Ham divided land am...

Jokshan

Jokshan was one of the six sons born to Abraham by his third wife Keturah. The sons of Jokshan were Sheba and Dedan. The...

Gomer

Gomer is listed among the sons of Japheth. He received the first land portion to the east from the north side as far as ...

Dedan

Dedan appears as a son of Raama (himself a son of Cush) together with Sheba. Dedan is also named as a son of Jokshan tog...

Medan

Medan was one of the six sons born to Abraham and his third wife Keturah. The sons of Medan were Amida, Joab, Gochi, Eli...

Phicol

Phicol is the prefect or captain of the host of Abimelech king of the Philistines. He was present with Abimelech and Ahu...

Becher

Becher is named as one of the sons of Benjamin. The Book of Jubilees lists him among Benjamin's eleven sons: Bela and Be...

Naaman

Naaman is named as one of the sons of Benjamin. He appears in lists of Benjamin's children, including among five sons bo...

Phut

Phut was one of the four sons of Ham, listed with Cush, Mitzraim and Canaan. His own sons were Gebul, Hadan, Benah and A...

Sheba

Sheba is named as a son of Raama, who was among the sons of Cush. Sheba is also listed among the sons of Yoktan. Sheba a...

Elisha

Elisha appears as one of the three sons of Enoch together with Methuselah and Elimelech. He is also named among the sons...

Milca

Milca was a daughter born to Haran and the sister of Sarai. She became the wife of Nahor, brother of Abram. Milca bore e...

Mardon

Mardon was the son of Nimrod and was more wicked than his father. He continued in wickedness, added to his father's abom...

Serak

Serak was judge of Sodom. A traveler brought Hedad before him and laid his cause, and Serak judged between them. He was ...

Adonizedek

Adonizedek was king of Jerusalem and the same was Shem. He went out with his men to meet Abram and his people with bread...

Epher

Epher is named among the sons of Midian, listed with Ephah, Chanoch, Abida and Eldaah. The sons of Epher were Ephron, Zu...

Abida

Abida was one of the sons of Midian, listed among Ephah, Epher, Chanoch and Eldaah. The sons of Abida were Chur, Melud, ...

Ahlibamah

Ahlibamah was the daughter of Zebeon the Hivite whom Esau took as a wife in addition to his other wives and brought to t...

Ribah

Ribah was a wife taken by Ishmael from the land of Egypt, and she is also called Meribah. She bare unto Ishmael Nebayoth...

Chanoch

Chanoch is named among the sons of Midian, together with Ephah, Epher, Abida and Eldaah. The sons of this Chanoch were R...

Jabin

Jabin is named as a son of Adbeel among the families of the children of Ribah the wife of Ishmael. Separately, Jabin kin...

Bunah

Bunah was a young damsel of beautiful appearance and well favored whom Simeon took for a wife. She was a Canaanitish wom...

Ihuri

Ihuri was the king of Shiloh and one of the neighboring kings contacted by Jashub king of Tapnach. He came up to assist ...

Dishon

Dishon is named as one of the seven sons of Seir the Horite, inhabitants of the land of Seir, alongside Lotan, Shobal, Z...

Carmi

Carmi was one of the four sons born to Reuben and his wife Eliuram, listed with Hanoch, Palu and Chetzron. The sons of R...

Aliyath

Aliyath was the daughter of Shua, a man from Canaan. Judah saw her in Adulam, took her, and came to her, making her his ...

Magron

Magron was the son of Pharaoh king of Egypt. After Pharaoh died he reigned in his stead. Pharaoh commanded Joseph to be ...

Osnath

Osnath is the young daughter of Potiphera, the son of Ahiram priest of On. The king gave her to Joseph as a wife. She bo...

Jephuneh

Jephuneh is identified as the father of Caleb. Caleb the son of Jephuneh explored the land with Joshua the son of Nun an...

Turel

Turel is named among the leaders of the angels in the Book of Enoch. The list of leaders includes Samlazaz, Araklba, Ram...

Susan

Susan is the daughter of Elam. Rasu'eja, who became the wife of Arpachshad, is identified as the daughter of Susan. This...

Put

Put was a son of Ham who parted from his father along with his brothers Cush, Mizraim, and Canaan. Ham later divided lan...

Edna

Edna is named as a mother in a visionary account prior to being taken as a wife. She appears as a wife who is the daught...

Melka

Melka is the daughter of Madai, the son of Japheth, and was taken as a wife in the thirtieth jubilee, after which a son ...

Arioch

Arioch was king of Sellasar, also called Elasar. He joined Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Terga...

Amraphel

Amraphel was king of Shinar who came with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Arioch king of Sellasar, and Tergal king of nations...

Ohad

Ohad is named as one of the sons of Simeon. The verses list him among Simeon's sons as Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zoha...

Ishbak

Ishbak was one of the six sons born to Abraham and his third wife Keturah. He is named alongside Zimram, Jokshan, Medan,...

Zebulon

Zebulon was one of the sons of Jacob born to Leah. He is named among the sons of Leah together with Reuben, Simeon, Levi...

Ashbel

Ashbel is listed as one of the sons of Benjamin. In Jubilees he appears among the eleven sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher,...

Ezbon

Ezbon is listed as one of the sons of Gad. He is named among those who went with Jacob into Egypt. The verses count him ...

Eri

Eri is named as one of the sons of Gad. The sons of Gad who went with him into Egypt include Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbo...

Shuni

Shuni is named as one of the sons of Gad. He is listed among those who went with Gad into Egypt. The sons of Gad include...

Jachin

Jachin is named as one of the sons of Simeon. The verses list him among Simeon's sons together with Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad,...

Rosh

Rosh is named among the sons of Benjamin. The Book of Jubilees lists the sons of Benjamin as Bela and Becher and Ashbel,...

Guni

Guni is named as one of the sons of Naphtali. The Book of Jubilees lists the sons of Naphtali as Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, S...

Arodi

Arodi is named as one of the sons of Canaan. Arodi is also listed among the sons of Gad. Uzith bare Arodi unto Gad as on...

Zidon

Zidon was one of the sons of Canaan. The countries of the Philistines and Canaan and Zidon brought presents unto Joseph ...

Ashcol

Ashcol was one of the sons of Arpachshad, listed together with Shelach and Anar. He appears later with Anar and Mamre am...

Anar

Anar was a son of Arpachshad, named together with Shelach and Ashcol. He appeared at a bier with Shem, Eber, Abimelech, ...

Kemuel

Kemuel was one of the eight sons born to Nahor, Abraham's brother, by Milca. His own sons were Aram and Rechob. Aram son...

Sabinah

Sabinah was the son of Tubal their father. The children of Tubal built a city in Tuscanan and called the name Sabinah af...

Ephah

Ephah was one of the sons of Midian. The sons of Midian are listed as Ephah, Epher, Chanoch, Abida and Eldaah. Ephah him...

Pildash

Pildash is listed among the eight sons born to Milca and Nahor, Abraham's brother. The sons of Chazo were Pildash, Mechi...

Zochar

Zochar is named as the father of Ephron, whom Abraham asks others to entreat so that he may purchase the cave of Machpel...

Abi

Abi was one of the children of Uz, the firstborn of Nahor. The siblings of Abi included Cheref, Gadin, Melus, and their ...

Rechob

The sons of Kemuel were Aram and Rechob. Aram the son of Kemuel and Rechob his brother went away from Haran and they fou...

Jehudith

Jehudith was the daughter of Beeri, son of Epher, from the families of Heth the son of Canaan. Esau saw her in the land ...

Eldaah

Eldaah was one of the sons of Midian, listed with Ephah, Epher, Chanoch and Abida. The sons of Eldaah were Miker, Reba, ...

Bosmath

Bosmath was the sister of Nebayoth, Kedar, Adbeel and Mibsam, born to Ribah and Ishmael. She was the daughter of Ishmael...

Aphlaleth

Aphlaleth was the daughter of Chamudan the Moabite. Dan took her as a wife in the land of Moab and brought her to the la...

Aridah

Aridah was the daughter of Jobab the son of Yoktan, the son of Eber. Issachar took her as his wife and they came to the ...

Zibeon

Zibeon was one of the seven sons of Seir the Horite, who were inhabitants of the land of Seir. The sons of Zibeon were A...

Shomron

Shomron is named as one of the four sons of Issachar, born to Aridah, alongside Tola, Puvah and Job. He is also identifi...

Uzith

Uzith is the younger daughter of Amuram. She was taken as a wife by Gad and brought to the land of Canaan. Uzith bore se...

Merimah

Merimah was the elder daughter of Amuram. Naphtali took Merimah as his wife and brought her to the land of Canaan to the...

Adon

Adon was the daughter of Aphlal, the son of Hadad, the son of Ishmael. Asher took her for a wife and brought her to the ...

Mechalia

Mechalia was the daughter of Aram, the son of Zoba, the son of Terah. Jacob sent for her and took her as a wife for his ...

Malkiel

Malkiel was the son of Elam, the son of Shem. He was the husband of Hadurah, a woman of comely appearance and sense. Had...

Ord

Ord is named as one of the ten sons of Benjamin. Benjamin lists him among his children when speaking with Joseph. He app...

Mupim

Mupim is named as one of the ten sons of Benjamin. The verses list him among Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Achi, R...

Chupim

Chupim is named as one of the ten sons of Benjamin. Benjamin lists him among his sons when speaking to Joseph. The sons ...

Achi

Achi is named as one of the sons of Benjamin. In the account, Benjamin reports having ten sons whose names include Achi,...

Chusham

Chusham was a man from the land of Teman whom the children of Esau made king over them after Jobab the son of Zarach fro...

Melol

Melol was the son of Pharaoh king of Egypt who reigned in his stead after Pharaoh died in the hundred and second year of...

Uzu

Uzu was a man who lived in the city of Puzimna in the land of Chittim. He became degenerately deified by the children of...

Zarach

Zarach is the father of Jobab, who was taken from the people of the children of the east in the land of Botzrah and made...

Chanan

Baal Chanan the son of Achbor reigned as king over Edom after the death of Saul king of Edom. He ruled the land of Edom ...

Ushpezena

Ushpezena was the very beautiful daughter of king Azdrubal. The men of Africa embroidered her likeness on their garments...

Arad

King Arad the Canaanite dwelt in the south. He heard that the Israelites had come by the way of the spies and arranged h...

Mathusal

Mathusal is the son whom Enoch begat when his one hundred and sixty-fifth year was completed. Enoch summoned Mathusal al...

Eva

Eva was created as a wife for Adam from his rib and named mother. She was seduced after the one who entered conceived th...

Pravuil

Pravuil is one of the Lord's archangels, summoned by name, whose knowledge was quicker in wisdom than the other archange...

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