Peleg

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division
(same as Phalec)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


PELEG.—A descendant of Shem in the fourth generation, according to the table of peoples given in Gen_10:1-32. In Luk_3:35 he stands a generation further off through the interpolation of Cainan from the LXX [Note: Septuagint.] . The etymology of the name is uncertain. Its reference may be geographical, or racial, or, as the word means ordinarily ‘a water-course,’ it may denote a land cut up by streams.
W. F. Cobb.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


("division".) Eber's son, Joktan's brother (Gen_10:25; Gen_11:16). "In his days the earth was divided." His name marks an epoch in the world's history:
(1) God's intimation of His will that the earth was to be divided in an orderly distribution of the various families of mankind, which order the Hamitic Babel builders tried to contravene (Gen_11:4), in order to concentrate their power; also the Hamite Canaanites in "spreading abroad" broke the bounds assigned by God, seizing the sacred possession of Shem where Jehovah was to be blessed as "the Lord God of Shem" (Gen_9:26; Gen_9:18-20).
(2) The division of Eber's family; the younger branch, the Joktanids, migrating into S. Arabia the elder Peleg remaining in Mesopotamia.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Pe'leg. (division, part). Son of Eber, and brother of Joktan. Gen_10:25; Gen_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.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


pē?leg (פּלג, 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? (niphleghāh) (Gen_10:25; compare Luk_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.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Pe?leg, son of Eber, and fourth in descent from Shem. His name means division, and is said to have been given him 'because in his days the earth was divided' (Gen_10:25; Gen_11:16).




The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Peleg
(Heb. id. פֶּלֶג, division; Sept. Φαλέγ v. r. Φαλέκ, Φαλέχ; Josephus, Φάλεκος, Ant. 1:6, 5), the son of Eber, and father of Reu (Gen_11:16-19). B.C. 24152176. He was the elder brother of Joktan, and the fourth in descent from Shem. This name is said to have been given him “because in his days was the earth divided” (Gen_10:25; 1Ch_1:19). This notice is usually thought to refer, not to the general dispersion of the human family subsequently to the Deluge, but to a division of the family of Eber himself, the younger branch of whom (the Joktanids) migrated into southern Arabia, while the elder remained in Mesopotamia. The name Phaliga occurs for a town at the junction of the Chaboras with the Euphrates; but the late date of the author who mentions the name (Isidorus of Charax) prevents any great stress being laid upon it. The separation of the Joktanids from the stock whence the Hebrews sprang finds a place in the Mosaic table, as marking an epoch in the age immediately succeeding the Deluge. According to others, however, the name indicates a mere earthquake, or at most an actual division of the earth in some geological convulsion, in which islands and continents were separated and formed by volcanic agency, and followed by extensive emigrations (Gen_9:19; Gen_10:32; Deu_32:8-9). Peleg is called Phalec (Φαλέκ) in the New Test. (Luk_3:35). SEE DISPERSION OF NATIONS.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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