1 Chronicles 1:8
in 1 Chronicles 1The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
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ASV
The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
KJV
The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 1
Commentary
4 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 Ham
on 1 Chronicles 1:8-16
In fifty-four verses of names the narrator breaks pattern only twice, and the first is here: Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth, one clause of story kept from Gen 10:8 while everything around it is trimmed to names. What survives the Chronicler's compression is by that fact marked as freight. The line runs on through Mizraim and Canaan, whose peoples fill the conquest narratives already built.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
), 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
The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim - “Arabia and Egypt.” - T.
The words behind it
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵ֖י | benei | [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| חָ֑ם | cham | Ham | H2526 → | 16 times |
| כּ֥וּשׁ | kush | Cush | H3568 → | 29 times |
| וּמִצְרַ֖יִם | umitzrayim | and Mizraim | H4714 → | 641 times |
| פּ֥וּט | put | Put | H6316 → | |
| וּכְנָֽעַן׃ | ukhenaan | and Canaan | H3667 → | 94 times |
בְּנֵ֖י[the] sons of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
חָ֑םHam
chamH2526 →16 times
כּ֥וּשׁCush
kushH3568 →29 times
וּמִצְרַ֖יִםand Mizraim
umitzrayimH4714 →641 times
פּ֥וּטPut
putH6316 →
וּכְנָֽעַן׃and Canaan
ukhenaanH3667 →94 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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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; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.