“ And Arphaxad begat Salah;f and Salah begat Eber. ”
- 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...
Eber. Whence the name Hebrews ( Genesis 14:13 ). beyond. The people coming from and beyond the "Flood", i.e. the Euphrates, to Canaan ( Joshua 24:2 ; Joshua 24:3 ; Joshua 24:14 ; Joshua 24:15 )....
And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. Salah - The founder of the people of Susiana. Eber - See Genesis 10:21 . The Septuagint add Cainan here, with one hundred and thirty to the chronolog...
Arphaxad begat Salah— Who established himself, as there is great reason to believe, in Susiana: he begat Eber, who begat two sons, the name of one of whom was Peleg, ( division, ) so called, becaus...
And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. Arphaxad begat Salah - Shelah ( 1 Chronicles 1:18 ) [Hebrew, shelach ( H7974 )], a shoot, implying that this branch of the family perhaps...
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...
Arphaxad begat Salah. — Heb., Shelah. The rest of the chapter is devoted to giving an account of the settlements of the Joktanite Arabs, who formed only one, apparently, of the races sprung from...
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...
And Arphaxad begat Salah ,.... Or Shelach which signifies "a sending forth"; that is, of waters: it is part of the name of Methuselah, given him by his father, as prophetic of the flood, see Genesi...
And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. Ver. 24. And Arphaxad. ] Held to be the father of the Chaldees.
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...
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‘And Arpachshad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber and to Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.' The move...
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
Salah. Heb. Shelah. Genesis 11:12-15