(snorting), the name of two persons in the family of Abraham

1. His grandfather, the son of Serug and father of Terah (Genesis 11:22-25)
2. Grandson of the preceding son of Terah and brother of Abraham and Haran (Genesis 11:26-27). The order of the ages of the family of Terah is not improbably inverted in the narrative; in which case Nahor, instead of being younger than Abraham, was really older. He married Milcah, the daughter of his brother Haran, and when Abraham and Lot migrated to Canaan, Nahor remained behind in the land of his birth, on the eastern side of the Euphrates.