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Genesis 36:22

in Genesis 36

The sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam. Timna was Lotan’s sister.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And the children of Lotan were Hori and Heman; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.

KJV

And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.

This verse in Genesis 36

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the sons of Seir the Horite, who were living in the land

on Genesis 36:20-23

Genesis lists the Horites who held Seir before Esau reached it, Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon and Anah heading the list and Dishon, Ezer and Dishan closing it. They are first named at Genesis 14:6, among the peoples Chedorlaomer struck, and Deuteronomy 2:12 says the sons of Esau took their place. The register gives them the care it gives the covenant family.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Hebrew Questions on Genesis · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 22.) And the sons of Lotan were Hori and Homam, and Lotan's sister was Timna. This is Timna, of whom it was said above. And Timna was the concubine of Eliphaz, the firstborn son of Esau, and from her was born Amalek. Now it is worth noting that the Horites, because the firstborn sons of Esau took their concubines as wives. And as for the names that are mentioned, Teman and Kenaz and Amalek, and so on: we will learn later the regions of the Edomites from which these names were derived.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the children of Lotan were Hori and Heman,....

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיִּהְי֥וּand they were

    vaiyihyuH19613559 times

  • בְנֵי־[the] sons of

    venei-H11214930 times

  • לוֹטָ֖ןLotan

    lotanH38777 times

  • חֹרִ֣יHori

    choriH2753

  • וְהֵימָ֑םand Hemam

    veheimamH1967

  • וַאֲח֥וֹתand [the] sister of

    vaachotH269114 times

  • לוֹטָ֖ןLotan

    lotanH38777 times

  • תִּמְנָֽע׃[was] Timna

    timna'H85556 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

2 stops

Each 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

    1 Chronicles 1:39

    The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam. Timna was Lotan’s sister.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 2:12

      The Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land…

    • Deuteronomy 2:22

      just as He had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this…

About Genesis

The Creation of Light, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Creation of Light, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jerome, Hebrew Questions on Genesis; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).