1 Chronicles 1:9
in 1 Chronicles 1The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
KJV
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
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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
Seba, and Havilah - “Sindi and Hindi, and Semadaei, and Libyes and the Zingitae; but the sons of the Mauritanians, Demargad and Mesag.” - T.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
began to be a mighty man on the earth He began to make wars and [perform] mighty deeds on the earth.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
And Arab begat Nimrod, who was the chief of those who would be warriors in sin, who shed innocent blood and rebelled [ m'rod ] before the LORD.
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Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 1 further source is cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְנֵ֣י | uvenei | and [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| כ֔וּשׁ | khush | Cush | H3568 → | 29 times |
| סְבָא֙ | seva' | Seba | H5434 → | |
| וַחֲוִילָ֔ה | vachavilah | and Havilah | H2341 → | |
| וְסַבְתָּ֥א | vesavta' | and Sabta | H5454 → | |
| וְרַעְמָ֖א | vera'ma' | and Raamah | H7484 → | |
| וְסַבְתְּכָ֑א | vesavtekha' | and Sabteca | H5455 → | |
| וּבְנֵ֥י | uvenei | and [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| רַעְמָ֖א | ra'ma' | Raamah | H7484 → | |
| שְׁבָ֥א | sheva' | Sheba | H7614 → | 23 times |
| וּדְדָֽן׃ ס | udedan | and Dedan | H1719 → |
וּבְנֵ֣יand [the] sons of
uveneiH1121 →4930 times
כ֔וּשׁCush
khushH3568 →29 times
סְבָא֙Seba
seva'H5434 →
וַחֲוִילָ֔הand Havilah
vachavilahH2341 →
וְסַבְתָּ֥אand Sabta
vesavta'H5454 →
וְרַעְמָ֖אand Raamah
vera'ma'H7484 →
וְסַבְתְּכָ֑אand Sabteca
vesavtekha'H5455 →
וּבְנֵ֥יand [the] sons of
uveneiH1121 →4930 times
רַעְמָ֖אRaamah
ra'ma'H7484 →
שְׁבָ֥אSheba
sheva'H7614 →23 times
וּדְדָֽן׃ סand Dedan
udedanH1719 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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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; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.