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Posted: **Mon Sep 05, 2016 10:04 am**

Do Keturah and Hagar are one person ?

We do not see in the Bible any details about Keturah .. only her name and the names of her children

Gen 25:1 Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.
Gen 25:2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah.
Gen 25:3 Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan; the descendants of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites and the Leummites.
Gen 25:4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.
Gen 25:5 Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.
Gen 25:6 But while he was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.

But the targum claim that the Hagar is a same person!!

XXV. And Abraham added and took a wife, and her name was Keturah; she is Hagar, who had been bound to him from the beginning. [JERUSALEM. She is Hagar, who had been tied to him from the beginning.]

http://targum.info/pj/pjgen23-5.htm

I want more evidence about it

very Thanks

Posted: **Mon Sep 05, 2016 5:06 pm**

Battar Kurdi wrote:Do Keturah and Hagar are one person ?

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But the targum claim that the Hagar is a same person!!
XXV. And Abraham added and took a wife, and her name was Keturah; she is Hagar, who had been bound to him from the beginning. [JERUSALEM. She is Hagar, who had been tied to him from the beginning.]
http://targum.info/pj/pjgen23-5.htm

I want more evidence about it

The Targum (Pseudo-Jonathan) is playing on the phonetic similarity of the Hebrew name qtwrh (Keturah) and Aramaic qtyr' (bound), hence:

...she is Hagar, who was bound [as a concubine] to [Abraham] from the beginning.

Incidentally, note that this interpretation was known to the Christian author Jerome at the time of his writing the Hebrew Questions on Genesis:

In the Hebrew language Keturah means "joined" or "bound". For this reason the Hebrews suppose that the same woman is Hagar with her name changed, who, when Sarah was dead, transferred from being concubine to wife.

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