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Naasson ben Aminadab
- Preferred Name: Naasson ben Aminadab[1] [2] [3] [4]
- Alternate Name: Naashon
- Gender: M
- MilitaryService: appointed by Moses, upon God's command, as prince and military commander of the Tribe of Judah
- FSID: L6Y9-86B
- Death: AFT 1234 BC in Jerusalem, Judah, Israel at LATI: N1.7804 LONG: E5.2177 with note: Seder Olam Rabbah states that Nachshon passed away in the second year after Exodus. The Rebbe connects this to the death of the elders (Igrot Kodesh, vol. 3, p. 225).
- Birth: ABT 1420 BC in Egypt at LATI: N7 LONG: E0
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Prince of Judah
- Tribe Name: with note: Description: Tribal leader of the Judahites
He was a tribal leader of the Judahites during the wilderness wanderings of the Book of Numbers. In the King James Version, the name is spelled Naashon,[1] and is within modern Rabbinical contexts often transliterated as Nachshon.
According to a Jewish Midrash, he was the person who initiated the Hebrews' passage through the Red Sea, by walking in head-deep until the sea parted.
In the Bible
Nahshon and his father from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle.
According to the Hebrew Bible, Nahshon was a son of Amminadab, descendant in the fifth generation of Judah, and brother-in-law of Aaron.[2][3][4] According to the Greek New Testament,[5] he is also the father-in-law of Rahab. He was an Israelite and a Judahite, and a member of the Perezite and Hezronite clans, through his descent from Jacob, Judah, Perez, and Hezron, respectively.
According to the Book of Numbers, he was at least 20 years old during the census in the Sinai, during the Exodus.[6] By the same account, those of the Israelites who were among the original number that had set out from Egypt, of whom Nahshon was one, did not survive the forty-year sojourn in the wilderness to enter the Promised Land of Canaan.
Nahshon was appointed by Moses, upon God's command, as prince and military commander of the Tribe of Judah and one of the leaders of the tribes of Israel. Although his tribe was fourth in the order of the Patriarchs, at the dedication of the Tabernacle he was the first to bring his dedicatory offering.[4] His title or role is translated into Modern English variously in the New Revised Standard Version, as "leader" and census-taker,[7] one of the "heads of their ancestral houses, the leaders of the tribes",[8] "first .. over the whole company",[9] and "prince of the sons of Judah".[10]
- Burial: in Israel, Canaan at LATI: N1.5 LONG: E4.75
- Occupation: Prince of the Tribe of Judah/Chief, cohen, Prince de Judée
- Parting+of+the+Red+Sea: with note: Description: According to a Jewish Midrash, he was the person who initiated the Hebrews' passage through the Red Sea, by walking in head-deep until the sea parted.
According to a Jewish Midrash
- Featured+in+a+painting+at+the+Sistine+Chapel: with note: Description: Nahshon is depicted as one of the ancestors of Christ in a lunette in the Sistine Chapel, where a youthful Nahshon is shown wearing a red robe and reading a book.
- Occupation: Tribal leader of the Judahites during the wilderness wanderings
- Tribe Name: with note: Description: Judah
- Caste: He was an Israelite and a Judahite, and a member of the Perezite and Hezronite clans, through his descent from Jacob, Judah, Perez, and Hezron, respectively.
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Husband of Miriam the Prophetess and Simar .
Father with Miriam of :
. Hur
. Jahdai
. Uri
. Jesher
. Shovab
Father with Simar of :
. Hareph
. Ardon
. Salmon
. Aminadav
. Naomi
Brother of Elisheba and Quenaz .
1391 Nahshon נַחְשׁוֹן or Nachshon ben Aminadav (נחשון בן עמינדב; "Nahshon son of Aminadav") was, according to the Book of Exodus, the son of Amminadab; descendant in the fifth generation of Judah, brother-in-law of Aaron and an important figure in the Hebrew's Passage of the Red Sea which according to the Jewish Midrash he initiated by walking in head deep until the sea split.
Luke 2:32 Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Boaz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson,
33 Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Judah.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/luke/3.33?lang=eng&clang=eng#p33
Luke 2:23-38 Joseph's lineage to God
23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph (M1XP-LBX), which was the son of Heli (LD83-JVG),
24 Which was the son of Matthat (LDYV-R4Z), whic
=== See Genesis 6:23. ===
See Genesis 6:23.
Preferred Parents:
Father: Aminadab ben Aram, b. 1487 BC in Jerusalem, Judah, Israel d. in Judea, Roman Empire
Mother: Thehara Tara , d. AFT 1234 BC in Yerushalayim, Jerusalem, Israel
Family 1: Miriam bat Amram, b. 1575 BC in Lower Egypt, Egypt d. in Kadesh-Barnea, Paran (Sinai Wilderness)
Family 2: Elisheba “Simar" bat Yahannas, b. BEF 1234 BC in Bethlehem, Judah, Israel d. AFT 1234 BC in Bethlehem, Judah, Israel
- Salmon ben Naasson, b. ABT 1353 BC in Rameses, Goshen, Egypt, Ägypten d. in Jerulsalem, Judah, Isreal
Sources:
- Title: Nachshon-ben-Aminadav
Author: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2199147/jewish/Nachshon-ben-Aminadav-The-Man-Who-Jumped-Into-the-Sea.htm
Publication: Name: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2199147/jewish/Nachshon-ben-Aminadav-The-Man-Who-Jumped-Into-the-Sea.htm;
- Title: Hebrew Bible
Author: https://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Hebrew_Index.htm
Publication: Name: https://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Hebrew_Index.htm;
Note: http://mylanguages.org/hebrew_romanization.php
https://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/OTpdf/1ch3.pdf
- Title: King James version of Bible
Author: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures?lang=eng
Publication: Name: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures?lang=eng;
- Title: Ancestry Family Trees
Author: Ancestry Family Tree
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