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Quran 26:177: Jesus: ʿĪsā: Yeshua: Matthew 1:16: Quran 3:59: Joachim or Heli: ʿImrān: Yehoyaqim Islamic tradition holds both Joachim and Amram are named the same, though the Quran only refers to Joachim with the name of Amram and calls Mary the sister of Aaron, [10] Muslims see
Al Imran (Arabic: آل عِمْرَانَ, āl ʿimrān; meaning: The Family of Imran [1] [2]) is the third chapter of the Quran with two hundred verses . This chapter is named after the family of Imran (Joachim), which includes Imran, Saint Anne (wife of Imran), Mary, and Jesus. [citation needed]
Amram, Joachim Imran , also transliterated as Emran ( Arabic : عمران ʿImrān ) is an Arabic name. The name Imran is found in the Quranic chapter called House of ʿImrān ( āl ʿImrān ).
Joachim (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ ə k ɪ m /; Hebrew: יהויקים, romanized: Yəhoyāqim, lit. 'he whom Yahweh has set up'; Greek : Ἰωακείμ , romanized : Iōākeím ) was, according to Christianity , the husband of Saint Anne , the father of Mary (mother of Jesus) , and the maternal grandfather of Jesus .
The Quran describes her remaining childless until her old age. One day, Anne saw a bird feeding its young while sitting in the shade of a tree, which awakened her desire to have children of her own. She prayed for a child and eventually conceived; her husband, Imran , died before the child was born.
In the Apocryphal Testament of Levi, it is stated that Amram was born as a grandson of Levi when Levi was 64 years old. [10] The Exodus Rabbah argues that when the Pharaoh instructed midwives to throw male children into the Nile, Amram divorced Jochebed, who was three months pregnant with Moses at the time, arguing that there was no justification for the Israelite men to father children if ...
Patristic tradition, on the contrary, consistently identifies Mary's father as Joachim. It has been suggested that Eli is short for Eliakim, [46] which in the Old Testament is an alternate name of Jehoiakim, [55] for whom Joachim is named. The theory is consistent with early traditions ascribing a Davidic ancestry to Mary.
Amram was the son of Kohath, who was a son of Levi. This would make Jochebed the aunt of Amram, her husband. This kind of marriage between relatives was later forbidden by the law of Moses. [5] Jochebed is also called Amram's father's sister in the Masoretic text of Exodus 6:20, but ancient translations differ in this.