“ The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad,e and Lud, and Aram. ”
- XXXIII. Shem 21. אבר 'eber , “‘Eber, yonder side; verb: pass, cross.” 22. עילם 'eylām , “‘Elam.” עוּל ‛ ûl , “suckle.” עלם ‛ ālam , “hide; be mature.” ארפכשׁד 'arpakshad...
Genesis 10. The Table of Nations. From P and J. To P we may assign Genesis 10:1-7 ; Genesis 10:20 ; Genesis 10:31 f. The rest belongs to J, for the most part to its secondary stratum, with some...
Elam . the mountainous district E. of Babylonia.
The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. Elam - From whom came the Elamites, near to the Medes, and whose chief city was Elymais. Asshur - Who gave his name to a vast...
The children of Shem— Were five: Elam inhabited Elymais, and so Persia; Ashur, Assyria; Arphaxad, Arrapachitis or Chaldea; Lud, Lydia; Aram, Syria.
The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. Elam - Elymais, Susiana, the name of a Persian province, of which the capital was Susa. The word is used in the early...
The Nations descended from Noah This section gives the origins and situations of the nations of the world, as their relationships were conceived by the early Hebrews. Before passing to the history...
(21-23) shem... the brother of Japheth the elder. — Really, the elder brother of Japheth. Though the rules of Hebrew grammar will admit of no other rendering, it is remarkable that both the Syria...
In this chapter we have a simple and straightforward account of the dispersion of the sons of Noah and their families after the Flood. The descendants of Japheth moved toward the isles or the coastla...
The children of Shem ,.... Whose names are Elam and Ashur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram ; and who, as Josephus f says, inhabited Asia, from Euphrates to the Indian ocean: his first born, Elam,...
The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. Ver. 22. Elam. ] Father of the Persians, that warlike people, but worshippers of the sun. We read of a Persian ambassador,...
DESCENDANTS OF NOAH In this chapter the genealogy of Japheth is given first (vs.1-5). Their history is not pursued in the book of Genesis: their character was that of the energy of independence, a...
21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. 22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and L...
Of Elam came the Elamites or Persians: see Genesis 14:9 Isaiah 21:2 Jeremiah 49:34 Daniel 8:2 Acts 2:9 . Asshur was father of the Assyrians: see Genesis 10:11 . Of Arphaxad the Ch...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 10:1 . Generations] The origins, genesis, or developments; a characteristic note of this book. The whole chapter is a table of the nations which descended from the sons o...
Genesis 10:2 . The sons of Japhet were Gomer, &c. Japhet is the Iapetos of the Greeks. His blessing Niphtha occasioned him to be called Neptune by the Greeks. Gomer, the father of the Gala...
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah A chapter of genealogies Many readers might be disposed to undervalue a chapter like this, since it is but a collection of names--some of which...
PART II . THE POST - DILUVIAN AGE OF THE WORLD . CH . 10:1-11:26. FROM THE DELUGE TO THE CALL OF ABRAM . § 5. THE GENERATIONS or THE SONS OF NOAH ( CH . 10:1-11:9)....
The Sons of Shem
children. Genesis 9:26 1 Chronicles 1:17-27 Elam. Genesis 14:1-9 2 Kings 15:19 Job 1:17 Isaiah 11:11 Isaiah 21:2 Isaiah 22:6 Jeremiah 25:25 Jeremiah 49:34-39 Acts 2:9 Arphaxad....