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Genesis 10:6
‘Egypt’ and ‘Canaan’ in this chapter are people’s names. After this chapter, they are names of countries.
‘Egypt’ and ‘Canaan’ in this chapter are people’s names. After this chapter, they are names of countries.
Verse Genesis 10:6. _CUSH_] Who peopled the Arabic _nome_ near the _Red Sea_ in Lower Egypt. Some think the _Ethiopians_ descended from him. _MIZRAIM_] This family certainly peopled _Egypt_; and both...
- XXXII. Ham 6. מצרים _mı̂tsrayı̂m_, “Mitsraim.” מצר _mētser_, “straitness, limit, pressure.” מצור _mātsôr_, “distress, siege, mound, bulwark; Egypt.” מצרים _mı̂tsrayı̂m_, “perhaps double Egypt, lo...
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...
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...
CUSH. Ethiopia, S. of Egypt. MIZRAIM. Egypt, became the name of Egypt. "the two Matsors". One _Matsor_ was country of the Delta within the great wall of defence called "Shur"; the other was Egypt pro...
The Sons of Ham 6. The races described as "the sons of Ham" are first traced in the most southerly regions. If the name has any connexion with _Kamt_, the native name of Egypt, it is noticeable that i...
THE SONS OF HAM— Ham, there is great reason to believe, was _the Ham,_ or Jupiter Ammon of the AEgyptians: his sons were four: Cush, who peopled Susiana, or some part of Arabia; Mizraim, AEgypt; Phut,...
6. _The Line of Ham_ (Genesis 10:6-20). 6 And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan. 7 And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of R...
_AND THE SONS OF HAM; CUSH, AND MIZRAIM, AND PHUT, AND CANAAN._ The sons of Ham - (see on meaning of this name, Genesis 6:10; Genesis 9:18.) His name was given to Egypt, as appears both from the Bibl...
10:6 Cush, (g-6) These names are given later to countries, i.e. Ethiopia, Egypt, Libya....
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...
HAM] a name for Egypt. The 'sons of Ham' means the nations connected with Egypt geographically or politically. They were all S. of Palestine. CUSH] Ethiopia or Nubia, S. of Egypt. PHUT] probably the '...
HAM. — Many derive this word from a Hebrew root, and explain it as signifying _hot, sunburnt,_ and so swarthy. Japheth they connect with a word signifying _to be fair;_ and so Ham is the progenitor of...
וּ בְנֵ֖י חָ֑ם כּ֥וּשׁ וּ מִצְרַ֖יִם וּ
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...
And the sons of Ham; (d) Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. (d) Of Cush and Mizraim came the Ethiopians and Egyptians....
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...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 AND 11. Chapter s 10, 11 give us the history of the world as peopled and established after the deluge, and the ways of men in this new world; the great pla...
AND THE SONS OF HAM,.... Next to the sons of Japheth, the sons of Ham are reckoned; these, Josephus z says, possessed the land from Syria, and the mountains of Amanus and Lebanon; laying hold on whate...
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. Ver. 6. _Cush._] Ethiopians came of him. Psalms 7:1 _. title_ Wicked Saul, for his black deeds, is called Cush. _confer _ Jer 13:23 Amo 9...
Gen. 10:6. Now what the heathen said of Jupiter is evidently taken from Ham, the son of Noah. Noah is the Saturn of the heathen, as is evident by note on Genesis 1:27. It is fabled that Saturn had thr...
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...
The Sons of Ham...
And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. Their descendants are to be found later in Ethiopia, Egypt, Libya, and the land of Canaan....
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...
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...
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...
The posterity of HAM were disposed into the parts south from Babel, both in Asia and Africa. See 1 CHRONICLES 4:40 PSALMS 105:27. CUSH was father both of the Ethiopians and the Arabians; who, as it se...
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...
Genesis 10:6 sons H1121 Ham H2526 Cush H3568 Mizraim H4714 Put H6316 Canaan H3667 And the - Genesis 9:22
‘And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim, and Put and Canaan.' Cush is connected with Nubia or Northern Sudan but also with the Cassites in Mesopotamia. Mizraim is the usual name for Egypt, its plural f...
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:...
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...
_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...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 10:6 Many of Israel’s enemies, such as the Egyptians, Babylonians, Philistines, and various Canaanite groups, descended from HAM. CUSH and PUT are regions so
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....
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...
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). I.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah (Genesis 10:1), And as we get into chapter ten, this chapter has been called the "Table of Nations". And here you have the beginning of all of the var...
A.M. 1676. B.C. 2228. And the. Genesis 9:22 1 Chronicles 1:8 1 Chronicles 4:40 Psalms 78:51...