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Aner

Mentioned in 1912 BC traditional (Jones)

A Canaanitish chief who joined his forces with those of Abraham in pursuit of Chedorlaomer (Gen. 14:13, 24).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Siblings
Eshcol, Mamre
Tagged in
2 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Family tree of Aner: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1937–1887 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Aner’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Aner in 2 tagged verses in one book.

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  1. Genesis2

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBAner 3
KJVAner 3
ASVAner 3

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 2 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Genesis2 verses
  1. 14:13

    Then an escapee came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to Abram.

  2. 14:24

    I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share for the men who went with me—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. They may take their portion.”

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

A Canaanitish chief who joined his forces with those of Abraham in pursuit of Chedorlaomer (Gen. 14:13, 24).