Keturah

Keturah
Keturah
	The wives and sons of Abraham, with Keturah standing at the far right with her six sons. From the 1630 Venice Haggadah.
In-universe information
Spouse	Abraham
Children	Zimran (son); Jokshan (son); Medan (son); Midian (son); Ishbak (son); Shuah (son)
Relatives	Sheba (grandson); Dedan (grandson); Ephah (grandson); Epher (grandson); Enoch (grandson); Abida (grandson); Eldaah (grandson); Asshurim (great-grandson); Letushim (great-grandson); Leummim (great-grandson); Sarah (half sister-in-law); Nahor (brother-in-law); Haran (brother-in-law); Terah (father-in-law)

Keturah (Hebrew: קְטוּרָה, Qəṭūrā, possibly meaning "incense"; Arabic: قطورة) was a wife and a concubine of the Biblical patriarch Abraham. According to the Book of Genesis, Abraham married Keturah after the death of his first wife, Sarah. Abraham and Keturah had six sons. According to Jewish tradition, she was a descendant of Noah's son Japheth.

One modern commentator on the Hebrew Bible has called Keturah "the most ignored significant person in the Torah". The medieval Jewish commentator Rashi, and some previous rabbinical commentators, related a traditional belief that Keturah was the same person as Hagar, although this idea cannot be found in the biblical text. However, Hagar was Sarah's Egyptian maidservant.

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