Genesis 10:18
in Genesis 10the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,
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ASV
and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad.
KJV
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
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This verse in Genesis 10
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn
on Genesis 10:15-18
Canaan's sons are the nations Israel would later meet in the land, Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites and Hivites. John Wesley notes this line is set out most particularly. The only ground Abraham ever owns in the land of promise is the cave at Machpelah, bought from the Hittites in chapter 23, and it is a grave.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, Heth, and the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite, the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the Arvadite,.... The inhabitants of Arvad, or Aradus, an island in the Phoenician sea; it is mentioned with Sidon, Eze 27:8 so Josephus says (q), the Arudaeans possessed the island Aradus: it is about a league distant from the shore; Strabo (r) says it is twenty furlongs from land, and about seven in circumference, and is said to be built by the Sidonians; it is now, as Mr. Maundrel (s) says, by the Turks called Ru-ad, or, as Dr. Shaw says (t), Rou-wadde; See Gill on Eze 27:
The words behind it
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הָֽאַרְוָדִ֥י | haarvadi | the Arvadite[s] | H721 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַצְּמָרִ֖י | hatzemari | the Zemarite[s] | H6786 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַֽחֲמָתִ֑י | hachamati | the Hamathite[s] | H2577 → | |
| וְאַחַ֣ר | veachar | and after | H310 → | 715 times |
| נָפֹ֔צוּ | nafotzu | they were scattered | H6327 → | 67 times |
| מִשְׁפְּח֖וֹת | mishpechot | [the] clans of | H4940 → | 303 times |
| הַֽכְּנַעֲנִֽי׃ | hakenaani | the Canaanite[s] | H3669 → | 73 times |
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הָֽאַרְוָדִ֥יthe Arvadite[s]
haarvadiH721 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הַצְּמָרִ֖יthe Zemarite[s]
hatzemariH6786 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הַֽחֲמָתִ֑יthe Hamathite[s]
hachamatiH2577 →
וְאַחַ֣רand after
veacharH310 →715 times
נָפֹ֔צוּthey were scattered
nafotzuH6327 →67 times
מִשְׁפְּח֖וֹת[the] clans of
mishpechotH4940 →303 times
הַֽכְּנַעֲנִֽי׃the Canaanite[s]
hakenaaniH3669 →73 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 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
Isaiah 10:9“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
it leads to
- 2 Kings 16:9
So the king of Assyria responded to him, marched up to Damascus, and captured it. He took its people to Kir as captives and put Rezin to death.
- 2 Chronicles 35:20
After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt marched up to fight at Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to confront him.
- Genesis 10:10
His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- 2 Kings 16:9
Through
2 Chronicles 13:4Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and said, “Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!
it leads to
- Joshua 18:22
Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz, Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
- 2 Chronicles 15:2
So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him,…
- Joshua 18:22
Through
Numbers 34:8and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,
it leads to
- Numbers 13:21
So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
- 2 Kings 14:25
This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of…
- Numbers 13:21
Through
Ezekiel 27:8The men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your men of skill, O Tyre, were there as your captains.
it leads to
- 1 Kings 9:27
And Hiram sent his servants, men who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.
- 1 Kings 9:27
Where this verse is studied
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About Genesis
This page draws on Bede, Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.