Peleg

Peleg
Peleg imagined in the 1553 Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum
Born2355 BCE (the time when the earth was divided)
Ur, Sumer
(present-day southern Iraq)
Died2116 BCE (aged 239)
ChildrenReu and others
ParentEber

Peleg (Hebrew: פֶּלֶג, romanizedPéleḡ, in pausa Hebrew: פָּלֶג, romanizedPā́leḡ, "division"; Biblical Greek: Φάλεκ, romanized: Phálek) is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two sons of Eber, an ancestor of the Ishmaelites and the Israelites, according to the Generations of Noah in Genesis 10–11 and 1 Chronicles 1.