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Keturah (Hebrew: קְטוּרָה, Qəṭūrā, possibly meaning "incense"; [1] Arabic: قطورة) was a wife [2] and a concubine [3] of the Biblical patriarch Abraham. According to the Book of Genesis , Abraham married Keturah after the death of his first wife, Sarah .
Jokshan (Arabic: يقشان, Hebrew: יָקשָׁן yoqšān) was, according to the Bible, a son of Abraham (Avraham) and his wife [1] or concubine [2] Keturah, whom he wed after the death of Sarah. [3] Jokshan had five brothers: Zimran, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah; [4] as well as two half brothers: Ishmael (Ismail) and Isaac (Ishaq). He ...
According to the Book of Genesis, the Midianites were the descendants of Midian, a son of Abraham and his wife Keturah: "Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah" (Genesis 25:1–2, King James Version). [4]
According to the Hebrew Bible, Midian (Hebrew: מִדְיָן Miḏyān) is the fourth son of Abraham and Keturah, [1] the woman Abraham married after Sarah's death. His brothers are Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Ishbak and Shuah. His sons are Ephah, Epher, Enoch, Abida, and Eldaah.
Shuah (Hebrew: שׁוּחַ, romanized: Šūaḥ, "ditch; swimming; humiliation" [1] or "sinks down" [2]) was the sixth son of Abraham (the patriarch of the Israelites) and Keturah, whom Abraham had wed after the death of Sarah. [3] [4] He was the youngest of Keturah's sons; the others were Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, and Ishbak. [3]
Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Itzhaki) argues that "Keturah" was a name given to Hagar because her deeds were as beautiful as incense (Hebrew, ketoret), and that she remained chaste (literally "tied her opening", with the verb tied in Aramaic being k-t-r) from the time she was separated from Abraham.
Three years after his divorce from his first wife, Maples gave birth to the couple's only child together in 1993, Tiffany Trump (named after "Tiffany & Co"). He and Maples wed two months later.
On the death of Sarah, Abraham purchases Machpelah (believed to be modern Hebron) for a family tomb and sends his servant to Mesopotamia to find among his relations a wife for Isaac; after proving herself worthy, Rebekah becomes Isaac's betrothed. Keturah, Abraham's other wife, births more children, among whose descendants are the Midianites ...