Heber

Mentioned 1705 BC to AD 60 traditional (Jones)

Son of Beriah and grandson of Asher (Gen. 46:17; 1 Chr. 7:31, 32).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father: Beriah
Children: Hotham, Japhlet, Shamer, Shua
Sibling: Malchiel
Tagged in: 6 verses

The 26th generation from Adam, counting Adam as the first.
Mentioned in the era of the Kingdom, 1050–587 BC.
Named in the same verses as Beriah, Malchiel, Asher, Birzavith, Chuza, Hotham, Imnah, and Isuah.

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

Family

Two generations up and the children; a button shows the grandchildren. 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.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 2146 BC to AD 100, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

6 tagged verses in 5 books. Select a book to read its verses.

Genesis1
Numbers1
1 Chronicles2
Luke1
Acts1

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Heber 11
KJV	Heber 14
ASV	Heber 11

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

Genesis1 verse

46:17
The children of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

Numbers1 verse

26:45
And these were the descendants of Beriah: the Heberite clan from Heber and the Malchielite clan from Malchiel.

1 Chronicles2 verses

7:31
The sons of Beriah: Heber, as well as Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
7:32
Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham, and of their sister Shua.

Luke1 verse

8:3
Joanna the wife of Herod’s household manager Chuza, Susanna, and many others. These women were ministering to them out of their own means.

Acts1 verse

23:35
he said, “I will hear your case when your accusers arrive.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod’s Praetorium.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

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