Genesis 15:19
in Genesis 15the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
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ASV
the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
KJV
The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
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This verse in Genesis 15
Commentary
7 notes on this verseThe Kenites, etc. - Here are ten nations mentioned, though afterwards reckoned but seven; see Deu 7:1; Act 13:19. Probably some of them which existed in Abram’s time had been blended with others before the time of Moses, so that seven only out of the ten then remained; see part of these noticed Genesis 10. In this chapter there are three subjects which must be particularly interesting to the pious reader.
This site's exposition
the LORD made a covenant with Abram
on Genesis 15:18-21
The grant is in the past tense, the land already given to his descendants. The boundaries run from the river of Egypt as far as the Euphrates, and ten peoples on that ground are listed by name, where Deuteronomy 7:1 later counts seven. The Rephaites stand on the list, the giant clans of 14:5.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
When the torches had passed over the divided animals, the covenant was made. God said to Abraham, "To your descendants I will give this land," and he described in detail how far the land extended in each direction.
Foreign peoples are given to Abraham as though for education and so that the most scrupulous mind of the just person might cut away their vices and correct their errors. But what is most evident here is rather the mystery of the church. Through its apostles, "who are Israelites, to whom belong the patriarchs," and from whose patriarchs "Christ was born according to the flesh" under the law, the church was to be constituted from the gathering of pagan peoples who would believe.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites.
But God ensures both to him; and that which made these two, the promised seed and the promised land, comforts indeed to this great believer was that they were both typical of those two invaluable blessings, Christ and heaven; and so, we have reason to think, Abram eyed them. God's Covenant with Abram.
They forfeited their right by their sins, and by their own sloth and cowardice kept themselves out of possession. (3.) The land granted is here described in its utmost extent because it was to be a type of the heavenly inheritance, where there is room enough: in our father's house are many mansions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַקֵּינִי֙ | hakeini | the Kenite[s] | H7017 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַקְּנִזִּ֔י | hakenizi | the Kenizzite[s] | H7074 → | |
| וְאֵ֖ת | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַקַּדְמֹנִֽי׃ | hakadmoni | the Kadmonite[s] | H6935 → |
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַקֵּינִי֙the Kenite[s]
hakeiniH7017 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הַקְּנִזִּ֔יthe Kenizzite[s]
hakeniziH7074 →
וְאֵ֖תand <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הַקַּדְמֹנִֽי׃the Kadmonite[s]
hakadmoniH6935 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
On this page
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About Genesis
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Ambrose of Milan, On Abraham; Didymus the Blind, ON GENESIS 234; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.