Person Old Testament
Lecah
Also known as Lecah =ESV, KJV; Lekah =NIV
Lecah, a descendant of Judah through Er. Mentioned once in Scripture, at 1 Chronicles 4:21.
Why it matters. Son of Er, a Judahite
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Lecah
Lecah was a son of Er and a descendant of Judah (1Ch.4.21). He is mentioned in the genealogy of Judah, specifically in the line of Shelah. No additional information is provided about Lecah in the Bible. He likely lived during the period of the patriarchs or the early settlement of the tribes in Canaan.
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
- Er
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)