1 Chronicles 1:6
in 1 Chronicles 1The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah.
KJV
And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 1
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth--The three sons of this patriarch are enumerated, partly because they were the founders of the new world, and partly because the fulfilment of Noah's prophecy (Ge 9:25-27) could not otherwise appear to have been verified.
This site's exposition
The sons of Japheth
on 1 Chronicles 1:5-7
The table of nations from Gen 10 begins, condensed and unglossed: Japheth's line, the coastland and northern peoples, Gomer and Magog and Javan among them. Chronicles keeps the whole human map in front of Israel before narrowing to Israel, so the election it traces sits inside a world it has named.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
But Mizraim, from whom came the Egyptians, and Canaan, from whom came the Canaanites, are both of them names of great note in the Jewish story; for with their descendants the Israel of God had severe struggles to get out of the land of Egypt and into the land of Canaan; and therefore the branches of Mizraim are particularly recorded (
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), contain the sacred line of Christ from Adam to Abraham, and are inserted in his pedigree, Luke iii. 34-38 , the order ascending as here it descends. This genealogy proves the falsehood of that reproach, As for this man, we know not whence he is.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
To this verse the Targum adds, “And the names of their countries were Asia, and Persia, and Barbary.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְנֵ֖י | uvenei | and [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| גֹּ֑מֶר | gomer | Gomer | H1586 → | |
| אַשְׁכֲּנַ֥ז | ʾashkanaz | Ashkenaz | H813 → | |
| וְדִיפַ֖ת | vedifat | and Diphath | H7384 → | |
| וְתוֹגַרְמָֽה׃ | vetogarmah | and Togarmah | H8425 → |
וּבְנֵ֖יand [the] sons of
uveneiH1121 →4930 times
גֹּ֑מֶרGomer
gomerH1586 →
אַשְׁכֲּנַ֥זAshkenaz
ʾashkanazH813 →
וְדִיפַ֖תand Diphath
vedifatH7384 →
וְתוֹגַרְמָֽה׃and Togarmah
vetogarmahH8425 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
2 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Genesis 10:3The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 27:14
The men of Beth-togarmah exchanged horses, war horses, and mules for your wares.
- Jeremiah 51:27
“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses…
- Ezekiel 27:14
Where this verse is studied
On this page
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.