| Serug Fausset's Bible Dictionary
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| Reu's son, great grandfather
of Abraham (as to his age, see CHRONOLOGY); in the Hebrew 230
years, 30 before begetting Nahor, 200 afterward; but in Septuagint 130
before begetting Nahor, making 330. One of many systematic variations
lengthening the interval between the flood and Abraham from 292 to 1172,
or as the Alexandrinus manuscript 1072. Epiphanius (Haer. 1:6, section 8)
says Serug means "provocation," and that idolatry began in his time, but
confined to pictures, and that the religion of mankind up to his time was
Scythic, after Serug and the building of the Babel tower it was Hellenic
or Greek.
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| Taken from: Fausset's Bible Dictionary by Andrew Robert Fausset (1821-1910) | |