("the moon".) Joktan's fourth son, forefather of a southern Arab tribe. The fortress Yerakh in the Mahra country, to the E. of Hadramaut, seems akin in name.

Mentioned in the genealogies of Ge 10:26 and 1Ch 1:20 as a son of Joktan. Probably, in analogy with other names in this connexion, Jerah is to be taken as the designation of an Arabian tribe. The Arabic geographers refer to places named War

Je'rah

Son of Joktan, of the family of Shem. Ge 10:26; 1Ch 1:20.

Je'rah

(the moon), the fourth in order of the sons of Joktan,

Ge 10:26; 1Ch 1:20

and the progenitor of a tribe of southern Arabia.