Bible Characters & Character Studies
Keturah
First appears at Genesis 25:1
First named in Scripture at Genesis 25:1 — read the chapter.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
incense, the wife of Abraham, whom he married probably after Sarah’s death (Genesis 25:1-6), by whom he had six sons, whom he sent away into the east country. Her nationality is unknown. She is styled “Abraham’s concubine” (1 Chronicles 1:32). Through the offshoots of the Keturah line Abraham became the “father of many nations.”
