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Keturah

The name of Abraham’s second wife. Abraham married Keturah, when he was one hundred and forty years of age, and by her he had six sons, Zimram, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. Keturah is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “that makes the incense to fume.” This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
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that makes the incense to fume According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

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Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Keturah

that makes the incense to fume

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

KETURAH

the name of Abraham’s second wife. Abraham married Keturah, when he was one hundred and forty years of age, and by her he had six sons, Zimram, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. Some chronologers, as Bishop Clayton, Hallet, &c, thinking it improbable that Abraham should marry again at such an advanced age, have dislocated the chronology of this period, by supposing that Abraham took Keturah as a concubine, in consequence of his wife Sarah’s barrenness, even before he left Charran;

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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Keturah

Meaning:
that makes the incense to fume

Indexed occurrences: 0

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