Genesis 10:20
in Genesis 10These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.
KJV
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
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This verse in Genesis 10
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThese are the sons of Ham,.... His sons and grandsons, which some reckon to be thirty, others thirty one, if the Philistines are taken in: after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations: families of the same language joined together and dwelt in the same country; see Gill on Gen 10:5 all Africa and a considerable part of Asia were possessed by the four sons of Ham and their posterity; Mizraim had Egypt, and Phut all the rest of Africa; and Cush and Canaan had a large portion in Asia.
This site's exposition
the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon
on Genesis 10:19-20
The border drawn here is the country Abram will be promised. Sidon, Gaza and Lasha mark its edges, and Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim sit inside it as living cities. That is three chapters before Lot pitches his tent toward Sodom and nine before the fire falls.
This site's exposition
These are the sons of Ham
John Gill counts Ham's sons and grandsons at thirty, or thirty-one with the Philistines, holding Africa and part of Asia. Adam Clarke warned that the lands and nations named here changed so often that many can no longer be placed. Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan head the four branches.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
These are the sons of Ham,.... His sons and grandsons, which some reckon to be thirty, others thirty one, if the Philistines are taken in: after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations: families of the same language joined together and dwelt in the same country; see Gill on Gen 10:5 all Africa and a considerable part of Asia were possessed by the four sons of Ham and their posterity; Mizraim had Egypt, and Phut all the rest of Africa; and Cush and Canaan had a large portion in Asia.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
These are the sons of Ham after their families - No doubt all these were well known in the days of Moses, and for a long time after; but at this distance, when it is considered that the political state of the world has been undergoing almost incessant revolutions through all the intermediate portions of time, the impossibility of fixing their residences or marking their descendants must be evident, as both the names of the people and the places of their residences have been changed beyond the possibility of being recognized.
The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֵ֣לֶּה | ʾeleh | these | H428 → | 746 times |
| בְנֵי־ | venei- | [were] [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| חָ֔ם | cham | Ham | H2526 → | 16 times |
| לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם | lemishpechotam | to clans their | H4940 → | 303 times |
| לִלְשֹֽׁנֹתָ֑ם | lilshonotam | to languages their | H3956 → | 117 times |
| בְּאַרְצֹתָ֖ם | beartzotam | in lands their | H776 → | 2504 times |
| בְּגוֹיֵהֶֽם׃ ס | begoyehem | in nations their | H1471 → | 561 times |
אֵ֣לֶּהthese
ʾelehH428 →746 times
בְנֵי־[were] [the] sons of
venei-H1121 →4930 times
חָ֔םHam
chamH2526 →16 times
לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖םto clans their
lemishpechotamH4940 →303 times
לִלְשֹֽׁנֹתָ֑םto languages their
lilshonotamH3956 →117 times
בְּאַרְצֹתָ֖םin lands their
beartzotamH776 →2504 times
בְּגוֹיֵהֶֽם׃ סin nations their
begoyehemH1471 →561 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 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
Genesis 10:6The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 1:8–16
The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
- Jeremiah 46:9
Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth—Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of Lydia drawing the bow.
- Ezekiel 27:10
Men of Persia, Lydia, and Put served as warriors in your army. They hung their shields and helmets on your walls; they gave you splendor.
- 1 Chronicles 4:40
There they found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful, and quiet; for some Hamites had lived there formerly.
- Psalms 78:51
He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.
- 1 Chronicles 1:8–16
Where this verse is studied
About Genesis
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Hebrew Questions on Genesis and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).