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Genesis 10:3

Ashkenaz Mentioned in Jeremiah 51:27 along with Ararat; and now generally identified with the region of Armenia. It is worth noticing that the mediaeval Jews explained this name as denoting Germany. Thus the Ashkenazim are the German Jews.

Riphath In 1 Chronicles 1:6 the name appears as "Diphath." The letters, R (ר) and D (ד), are very similar in Hebrew. Cf. "Dodanim" for "Rodanim," Genesis 10:4. Josephus identified "Riphath" with the Paphlagonians. The name is now unknown.

Togarmah Mentioned also in Ezekiel 27:14, with Javan, Tubal and Meshech; and in Ezekiel 38:6, with Gomer, and generally identified with the western part of Armenia. Cf. 1 Chronicles 1:6.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 10:3. _ASHKENAZ_] Probably gave his name to _Sacagena_, a very excellent province of Armenia. Pliny mentions a people called _Ascanitici_, who dwelt about the _Tanais_ and the _Palus Mae...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - Section VIII - The Nations - Japheth 2. גמר _gomer_, “Gomer, completion; related: complete;” Κιμμέριοι _Kimmerioi_. מגוג _māgôg_, “Magog, Caucasian, Skyth.” מדי _māday_, “Madai, middle: Mede.”...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    V. THE GENERATIONS OF THE SONS OF NOAH CHAPTER 10 Shem, Ham, and Japheth and Their Seed _ 1. The sons of Japheth (Genesis 10:2)_ 2. The sons of Ham (Genesis 10:6) 3. The sons of Shem (Genesis 10:2...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    GENESIS 10. THE TABLE OF NATIONS. From P and J. To P we may assign Genesis 10:1; Genesis 10:20; Genesis 10:31 f. The rest belongs to J, for the most part to its secondary stratum, with some elements f...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SONS OF GOMER— Who were three: Ashkenaz, inhabited Bythinia and Troas; Ripkath, Paphlagonia and the Riphaean mountains; Togarmah, Cappadocia....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    5. _The Line of Japheth_ (Genesis 10:2-5). 2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 3 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarma...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE SONS OF GOMER; ASHKENAZ, AND RIPHATH, AND TOGARMAH._ Ashkenaz - or Ashchenaz. The only other passage of Scripture in which the name occurs is in Jeremiah 51:27, where it is associated with t...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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 of...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 10 NOAH’S FAMILY V1 These are the *descendants of Noah’s sons. Noah’s sons were Shem, Ham and Japheth. After the flood, they became the fathers of...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    GOMER has three main divisions: — 1. ASHKENAZ, a region in the neighbourhood of Armenia (Jeremiah 51:27), whence, following the course of Japhethite migration, the race seems to have wandered into Ge...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ בְנֵ֖י גֹּ֑מֶר אַשְׁכֲּנַ֥ז וְ רִיפַ֖ת וְ

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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 coastlan...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Ascenez father of the Germans, Thogorma father of the Turks. (Menochius)...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE SONS OF GOMER,.... Who was the first of the sons of Japheth, three of whose sons are mentioned, and they are as follow: ASHKENAZ, AND RIPHATH, AND TOGARMAH; the first of these seated himself...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. Ver. 3. _Ashkenaz._] _Hinc Tuiscones_, or Duitschmen, say the Jews; making Ashkenaz the father of the Germans, as Gomer of the Cimbrians or...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The generations of Noah. 2 The sonnes of Iaphet. 6 The sonnes of Ham. 8 Nimrod the first Monarch. 21 The sonnes of Shem. 1 NOW these are the generations of the sonnes of Noah; Shem, Ham, and Ia...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Sons of Japheth...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah, whose descendants were probably the Askanians in Northern Phrygia, the Celts, or Gauls, and the major part of the Armenian nation....

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    THIRD SECTION _The Ethnological Table._ GENESIS 10:1-32 1Now these are the generations [genealogies] of the sons of Noah; [they were] Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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, and...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 This chapter shows concerning the three sons of Noah, that of them was the whole earth overspread. No nation but that of the Jews can be sure from which of these seventy it has come. The lists of...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    ASHKENAZ, whose seed possessed Pontus and Bithynia, and the neighbouring parts, from whom they took the names of the lake and haven called Ascanius, and the sea called Axenus, or Euxinus. RIPHATH is c...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    This section of our book records the generations of Noah's three sons, noticing, especially, Nimrod, the founder of the kingdom of Babel, or Babylon, a name which occupies a very prominent place on th...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 10:3 sons H1121 Gomer H1586 Ashkenaz H813 Riphath H7384 Togarmah H8425...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And the sons of Gomer, Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah. And the sons of Javan, Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.' Ashkenaz probably represents the ancestors of the Scythians. Togarmah may w...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Establishing of the nations. CHARACTERS: Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth, Nimrod, Canaan. CONCLUSION: God made all nations of one blood and determined the bounds of their habitations. KEY WORD:...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 Galatinians...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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 ar...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 10:2 FROM THESE THE COASTLAND PEOPLES SPREAD. This places Japheth’s descendants in the coastal regions and islands of the Med­iterra­nean Sea....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 10:1 The Descendants of Noah’s Sons. The next main section of Genesis 1:1 shows how humanity becomes divided into different nations....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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 of Noa...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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