Person
Joktan
Son of Eber and brother of Peleg (Gen 10:25); father of thirteen sons whose dwelling was "from Mesha ... unto Sephar a mount of the east" (Gen 10:30).
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Description
Son of Eber and brother of Peleg (Gen 10:25); father of thirteen sons whose dwelling was "from Mesha ... unto Sephar a mount of the east" (Gen 10:30). Josephus (Antiquities I.6.4, Whiston): "These inhabited from Cophen, an Indian river, and in part of Asia adjoining to it."
Scripture
Family
- Father
- Eber (Heber)
- Children
- Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba (son of Joktan), Ophir (son of Joktan), Havilah (son of Joktan), Jobab
Birth
| Chronology | Date as stated | Year (BC / AM) | Citation & note |
|---|---|---|---|
| CFAH | Not yet established | — | — pending CFAH reference. CFAH dates the Table-of-Nations framework (first territorial division AP-27, 2254 BC; final division AP-28, 2247 BC; Dispersion AP-2, 2192/2191 BC) but not this individual birth |
| Ussher-Jones | Not yet established | — | — Jones gives no birth year for Table-of-Nations names. |
| Ussher | Not yet established | — | — Ussher (Annals) gives no birth year for this name. |
| Jordan secondary | 1759 - Joktan ben Eber ... Precision: conjectural |
AM 1759 | Jordan, "The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 3)," Biblical Chronology 6:5 (May 1994), §8 "The Table of Nations", table "An Hypothetical Chronology for the Table of Nations" (opens in a new tab) Jordan: "If we assume births every two years, and about 30 years between generations ... we can come up with an approximate series of dates" (hypothetical, not stated by Scripture). |
Disagreements & open questions
- Open question Place link is by name: OpenBible identifies the place named in later scripture (Gen.10.30), not the Gen 10 ancestor. Certainty: mesha low (25%); sephar low (35%).
Flags are generated from the figures stored in the data. The master timeline still sorts by the CFAH-weighted sort year.
Related
Free sources
- The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) — Gen.10.25-Gen.10.30 ; 1Chr.1.19-1Chr.1.23 public-domain
- The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 3) (Biblical Chronology 6:5, May 1994) (opens in a new tab) — §8 "The Table of Nations" free-to-read
- The Antiquities of the Jews (opens in a new tab) — Book I, ch. 6, §4 public-domain
- OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding (opens in a new tab) open-license
- OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding (opens in a new tab) open-license
Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.