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Person Old Testament

Ezer

Ezer was the father or founder of Hushah and a son of Hur of Ephrathah. Mentioned once in Scripture, at 1 Chronicles 4:4.

Why it matters. Father or founder of Hushah, of Ephrathah.

Primary passages
Last reviewed
2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team

About Ezer

Ezer is mentioned in 1Ch.4.4 as a son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah. Ephrathah was the wife of Caleb, son of Hezron (1Ch.2.19, 50). Ezer is identified as the father of Hushah, which could refer to either an individual or a place associated with him.

Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.

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Family

Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.

Parents
Hur (?)
Children
Hushah

Appears in Scripture

Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.

  • 1 Chronicles (1 verse)

    4:4

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