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Keturah
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ke-tu'-ra (that makes the incense to fume,
incense)
RELATED: Abraham, Midian, Sarah |
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
incense, The wife of Abraham, whom he married probably
after Sarah's death ( Genesis
25:1 - 6
), by whom he had six sons, whom he sent away into the east country. Her nationality
is unknown. She is styled "Abraham's concubine" ( 1
Chronicles 1:32 ). Through the offshoots of the Keturah line Abraham became
the "father of many nations."
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
that makes the incense to fume
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(incense) The wife of Abraham after the death of Sarah.
( Genesis
25:1 ; 1
Chronicles 1:32 ) (B.C. 1860.)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
ke-tu'-ra, ke-too'-ra (qeTurah; Chettoura, "incense"):
The second wife of Abraham (Genesis
25:1 ; 1
Chronicles 1:32 f). According to the Biblical tradition, he contracted this
second marriage after the death of Sarah (compare Genesis
23), and very likely after the marriage of Isaac (compare Genesis
24). It is not improbable that, as some writers have suggested, this change
in the life of his son prompted Abraham to remarry in order to overcome the feeling
of lonesomeness caused by Isaac's entering the state of matrimony.
1
Chronicles 1:32 (and also Genesis
25:6) shows us that Keturah was not considered to be of the same dignity as
Sarah who, indeed, was the mother of the son of promise, and, for obvious reasons,
the sons of Abraham's concubines were separated from Isaac. She was the mother
of 6 sons representing Arab tribes South and East of Israel (Genesis
25:1 - 6),
so that through the offspring of Keturah Abraham became "the father of many nations."
William Baur
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