Bible Person

Jarha

Male · 2 cross references

Jarha is the Egyptian servant who marries Ahlai and continues Sheshan's Judahite line in Chronicles. He belongs to one of the genealogy's most unusual household arrangements. First appears in 1 Chr 2:34.1

AI summary: Jarha matters because the cross references place him at the heart of a rare genealogical adaptation in which a family line is preserved through a daughter and a servant marriage rather than a standard male succession. His presence gives the record unusual narrative texture and shows that real household complexities are not erased from tribal memory. Taken together, the material presents Jarha as an Egyptian servant whose marriage becomes central to the continuation of a Judahite family line.1