Person

Eber (Heber)

Also: Heber

Son of Salah; father of Peleg and Joktan (Gen 10:25). Ussher notes he outlived Abraham and that the name "Hebrew" comes from him (§102).

Sort year2281 BC

Tier 4 · Ussher, Annals of the World

Tier 4: Ussher, Annals (1658): 2281 BC (no higher-tier year available).

Description

Masoretic text: born AM 1723 (when his father was the age given in Gen 11), lived 464 years, died AM 2187. No CFAH paper dates this person; the sort year falls to Ussher.

Scripture

Family

Father: Salah (Shelah)
Children: Peleg, Joktan

Scripture facts

Age at son's birth: 34
Lifespan: 464 years

Genesis 11:14–11:17 (opens in a new tab)

Birth

birth of Eber (Heber), CFAH first
Chronology	Date as stated	Year (BC / AM)	Citation & note
CFAH	Not yet established	—	— pending CFAH reference
Ussher-Jones	1723 AM Precision: year	AM 1723	Jones, Chronology of the Old Testament (15th ed., 2002), "Chronological Compendium", p. 1 ("Eber born when Salah was 30 ... 1723") (opens in a new tab) AM only; no BC printed.
Ussher	1723d AM, 2281 BC Precision: year	2281 BC AM 1723	Ussher, Annals of the World, Second Age §46 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab) Sets sort year
Jordan secondary	1723 - Eber born. Precision: year	AM 1723	Jordan, "The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 2)," Biblical Chronology 6:4 (April 1994), §8 "The Chronology of Genesis 11" (year list) (opens in a new tab)
Jordan (compilation) secondary	1723 AM Precision: year	AM 1723	Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (unnamed compiler; a compilation of James B. Jordan's system), p. 2, chart "Genesis 11:10 – 12 Genealogy" (opens in a new tab) Agrees with Jordan's own published AM 1723.
MT-Gen	AM 1723 Precision: year	AM 1723	Gen 11:10–26 (Arphaxad AM 1658 = Shem's 100th year, two years after the Flood of AM 1656; each later birth adds the father's age at the named son) (opens in a new tab)
Josephus (Whiston translation)	"he himself [Heber] being begotten by Sala when he was a hundred and thirty years old" Precision: unknown	—	Josephus, Antiquities I.6.5 (Whiston) (opens in a new tab) Josephus (Whiston) has 130; the Masoretic text has 30 (Gen 11:14).

Death

death of Eber (Heber), CFAH first
Chronology	Date as stated	Year (BC / AM)	Citation & note
CFAH	Not yet established	—	— pending CFAH reference
Ussher-Jones	Not yet established	—	— Not stated in the Jones sources read (Chart No. 1; Chronology of the Old Testament 15th ed. 2002). Leave empty until verified.
Ussher	2187d AM, 1817 BC Precision: year	1817 BC AM 2187	Ussher, Annals of the World, Third Age §102 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab)
Jordan secondary	"Eber outlived \"Abram the Hebrew [Eberite]\" 4 yrs. Jacob and Esau were 19 when Eber died." Precision: year	—	Jordan, "The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 2)," Biblical Chronology 6:4 (April 1994), §8 "The Chronology of Genesis 11" (year list) (opens in a new tab) Stated relative to Abraham; Jordan prints no AM figure for this death.
Jordan (compilation) secondary	2187 AM Eber dies @ 464 years old Precision: year	AM 2187	Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (unnamed compiler; a compilation of James B. Jordan's system), p. 2, chart "Genesis 11:10 – 12 Genealogy" (opens in a new tab)
MT-Gen	AM 2187 Precision: year	AM 2187	1723 + 464 = 2187 (lifespan from Gen 11:14–11:17) (opens in a new tab)

Free sources

The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) — Gen.10.21 ; Gen.10.24-Gen.10.25 ; Gen.11.14-Gen.11.17 ; 1Chr.1.18-1Chr.1.19 ; Luke.3.35 public-domain
The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 2) (Biblical Chronology 6:4, April 1994) (opens in a new tab) — §8 year list free-to-read
The Antiquities of the Jews (opens in a new tab) — Book I, ch. 6, §5 public-domain
Chronology of the Old Testament: A Return to the Basics (15th ed.) (opens in a new tab) free-to-read
The Annals of the World, Deduced from the Origin of Time (1658 English edition), Part One: 4004–176 BC (opens in a new tab) public-domain
Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (A.M. chronology charts and A.M./B.C. table) (opens in a new tab) private-copy

Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.