NACHOR (Hebr. Nāhōr). – Son of Thare and brother of Abramo (Gen. 11:26). He was the father of 12 sons, 8 of them by Melcha, the daughter of his brother Aran and sister of Lot, and 4 by another wife named Roma: these became the ancestors or eponyms of as many Aramaean tribes, which settled west of the Euphrates, and one of them (such as Maacha [v.]) extended as far as the mountains of Galaad. Although he is not mentioned at the time of Abramo’s emigration from Chaldaea, N. followed his brother as far as Haran, subsequently called for this reason “the city of N.” (Gen. 27:43), where he settled with his family.
two phases of the Council, intervening in important questions (the residence of bishops, the sacrificial character of the Last Supper). Upon returning to his diocese, he zealously applied the decrees of the Council and celebrated the diocesan Synod (31 Aug. 1564).
His numerous works were printed in Venice in 1567 (2nd ed., in 2 vols., Lyons 1657). The principal ones are: Enarrationes in Ep. ad Ephesica; Enarrationes in Ep. ad Romanos; Sacrae Scripturae medulla; Tractationes XVIII theologales variae: brief theological treatises and concise essays on vari-
Although he does not receive any mention of him at the time of Abramo’s emigration from Chaldaea, N. followed his brother as far as Haran, subsequently called for this reason “the city of N.” (Gen. 27:43), where he settled with his family.
Abramo continued to maintain relations with N. even when he separated from him to go to the land of Canaan (cf. ibid. 22:20), and later wished to give his son Isacco a wife, Rebecca, from his brother’s family (ibid. 24). From the same family Giacobbe took his two wives, Lia and Rachele (ibid. 29). And when, after fleeing from Haran, he was reconciled with his uncle and father-in-law Laban, who was the son of Bathuel and grandson of N., a covenant was concluded between them in the name “of the God of Abramo and the God of N.” (ibid. 31:33): from this passage some wish to deduce that N., like his father Thare before him (cf. Ios. 24:2), was also infected with idolatry.