Bible Person

Jerah

Meaning: the moon; month; smelling sweet · Male · 2 cross references

Jerah is one of the sons or descendants of Joktan in the table of nations. He belongs to the broad post-flood mapping of peoples beyond Israel's immediate story. First appears in Gen 10:26.1

AI summary: Jerah matters because the cross references place him within the carefully ordered genealogy of Joktan's descendants, extending Scripture's remembered geography of humanity into a wider world of peoples. Even without a narrative episode, his name supports the Bible's structured vision of the nations. Taken together, the material presents Jerah as a Joktanite ancestral figure contributing to the remembered ordering of the world.1