Peleg (Heb. Peleg, “division”; gr. Fálek). Son of Eber and ancestor of Abraham (Gen 11:16-26). His name referred to the fact that in his time the earth was divided (10:25). The division here mentioned is the general dispersion of Noah’s descendants throughout the earth, or that which resulted from the confusion of languages (11:7-9). A city at the mouth of the Khabur, in Upper Mesopotamia, was named Paliga, perhaps in honor of Peleg, just as other cities in the area commemorated patriarchal names such as Serug, Terah, and Nahor.
Source: Evangelical Bible Dictionary
hebrew division. Son of Héber, descendant of Sem, Gn 10, 25, and brother of Yoqtán. He was born in the days when the earth was divided, hence his name. He lived two hundred and thirty-nine years and fathered Reu and several more sons and daughters, Gn 11, 16-19. From P.’s lineage comes Abraham.
Digital Bible Dictionary, Grupo C Service & Design Ltda., Colombia, 2003
Source: Digital Bible Dictionary
(Heb., pelegh, division). One of the sons of Eber (Gen 10:25; Gen 11:16-19; 1Ch 1:19, 1Ch 1:25). The reason he was called Peleg was that in his day the earth was divided. This probably refers to the confusion of languages and the consequent dispersion of Noah’s descendants (Gen 11:1-9).
Source: Hispanic World Bible Dictionary
(Division). Character in the offspring of Sem. Son of †¢Heber (Gen 10:25; Gen 11:16-19; 1Ch 1:19, 1Ch 1:25; Luke 3:35). It is thought that the Hebrews were the sons of Heber through P., while the Arabs came from † ¢ Joktan, his brother.
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
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vet, = “division”. Son or descendant of Eber (Gen. 10:25; 11:16). The “division of the earth” mentioned here is enigmatic. There are expositors who refer to the dispersion of the descendants of Noah after the event of the Tower of Babel. Others propose that at this time there was a cataclysm on a global scale that caused a drift of continents with a speed that has been gradually decreasing. (See the consideration of both points of view in the Bibliography). Bibliography: Morris, HM: “The Genesis Record”, CLP, San Diego, 1976, PP. 260-261).
Source: New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
(Division).
Son of Eber and father of Reu. He descended from Shem, and ancestor of Abraham and Jesus Christ. He lived for two hundred and thirty-nine years (2269-2030 BCE), and gave rise to one of the 70 post-Flood families. (Ge 11:16-19; 1Ch 1:24-27; Lu 3:35)
It was so named because “in his days the earth was divided.” (Ge 10:25; 1Ch 1:19) These passages do not say that this unique division occurred when he was born, one hundred years after the Flood, but only say: † œIn his days †. If this name was given to him when he was born, he was possibly prophetic of the dispersion that occurred as a result of the confusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel. (Ge 11:1-9; compare the name Noah, which also turned out to be prophetic, Ge 5:29.)
Source: Dictionary of the Bible
(heb. peleḡ, ‘watercourse, division’). Son of Heber, brother of Yoqtan (* Joctan), and grandson of Sem (Gn. 10.25). In his time the earth was “divided”; the voice usednifleḡâ) is a pun on his name, or an explanation of it. It is commonly taken to refer to the partitioning of the world’s population into various linguistic and geographic groups (Gen. 11:1–9). It can also mark the perfection of cultivation by the semi-nomadic sons of *Heber, using artificial irrigation canals (as. plague); in this sense it is used peleḡ in Isaiah 30.25; 32.2; Job 29.6; 38.25. Otherwise it could be a reference to the division of the territory by borders (ac. pulukku; JCS 18, 1964, p. 69; palaku, ‘divide at the borders’). Peleg was the father of Reu (Gen. 11.19).
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Douglas, J. (2000). New Biblical Dictionary: First Edition. Miami: United Bible Societies.
Source: New Bible Dictionary