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Genesis 10:29

in Genesis 10

Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

KJV

And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

This verse in Genesis 10

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Shem, the third son of Noah, had five sons, who inhabited the land that began at Euphrates, and reached to the Indian Ocean. For Elam left behind him the Elamites, the ancestors of the Persians.

This site's exposition

Joktan was the father of Almodad

on Genesis 10:26-31

Joktan's thirteen sons are counted out in full and then never taken up again. Havilah is the country the Pishon ran through at 2:11, where the gold was. Sheba and Ophir stand behind the queen who came to Solomon and the fleet that fetched his gold.

This site's exposition

Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab

The Greek ending of Job makes Job one with Jobab, an Edomite king named at 36:33. Ophir is later the gold country of 1 Kings 9:28. Jerome, who writes Havilah as Evila, set all of Joktan's sons in India.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab,....

The words behind it

10 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.

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • אוֹפִ֥רOphir

    ʾofirH211 →

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • חֲוִילָ֖הHavilah

    chavilahH2341 →7 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • יוֹבָ֑בJobab

    yovavH3103 →9 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אֵ֖לֶּהthese

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[were] [the] sons of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יָקְטָֽן׃Joktan

    yaketanH3355 →6 times

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

The walk

8 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 Kings 9:28

    They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 29:4

      three thousand talents of gold (the gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the buildings,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Psalms 45:9

      The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Psalms 45:9

    The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 2:19

      So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, and sat down on his throne. Then the king had a throne…

    • Revelation 21:9

      Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

    • Revelation 21:2

      I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

    • Revelation 19:7

      Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.

    • Ephesians 5:26–27

      to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

  • Through

    1 Samuel 15:7

    Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 25:18

      Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jerome, Hebrew Questions on Genesis; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews - Book I, Chapter 6, Sections 4.