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Arpachshad
Arfaxat la ארפכשד he
Biblical figure, son of Shem, grandson of Noah, ancestor of Abraham
- Child of Shem
- Traditionally 2103 BCE – 1665 BCE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Family
The family of Arpachshad
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 7
Kinship in an account 7
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Shem Biblical figure, son of Noah, ancestor of the Semites -
parent of (father) Cainan Biblical figure omitted from the Masoretic genealogies -
parent of (father) Salah ancestor of Abraham according to Genesis in Hebrew Bible, son of Arpachshad or Cainan - sibling of Aram biblical figure (Genesis 10)
- sibling of Ashur son of Shem, the second son of Shem, son of Noah, ancestor of the Assyrians in Iraq and Syria
- sibling of Elam Biblical character, son of Shem
- sibling of Lud biblical character
Texts
In the texts
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Sources
Sources and evidence
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9 statements on this record
- 6 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
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Review
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Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 2 collection memberships. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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