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aÌ‚r (ער, ‛eÌ„r, “watcherâ€; ἨÌÏ, EÌ„r):
(1) The eldest son of Judah, the son of Jacob, by Shua the Canaanite. Judah took for him a wife named Tamar. It is recorded that Er “was wicked in the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh slew him†(, , ; ).
(2) “Er the father of Lecah†is mentioned among “the sons of Shelah the son of Judah†().
(3) An ancestor of Jesus in Luke's genealogy in the 7th generation before Zerubbabel ().