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Genesis 10

Gen. 10:26 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Joktan
Yoqtan (Hebrew #3355)
he will be made little; Joktan, an Arabian patriarch
KJV usage: Joktan.
Pronounce: yok-tawn'
Origin: from 6994
begat
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
Almodad
'Almowdad (Hebrew #486)
probably of foreign derivation
KJV usage: Almodad, a son of Joktan:--Almodad.
Pronounce: al-mo-dawd'
, and Sheleph
shelaph (Hebrew #8026)
extract; Sheleph, a son of Jokthan
KJV usage: Sheleph.
Pronounce: sheh'-lef
Origin: from 8025
, and Hazarmaveth
Chatsarmaveth (Hebrew #2700)
village of death; Chatsarmaveth, a place in Arabia
KJV usage: Hazarmaveth.
Pronounce: khats-ar-maw'-veth
Origin: from 2691 and 4194
, and Jerah
Yerach (Hebrew #3392)
Jerach, an Arabian patriarch
KJV usage: Jerah.
Pronounce: yeh'-rakh
Origin: the same as 3391
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More on:

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Almodad,
Hazarmaveth,
Jerah,
Joktan,
Sheleph

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1 Chron. 1:20‑28• 20And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
 21Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,
 22And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
 23And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
 24Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,
 25Eber, Peleg, Reu,
 26Serug, Nahor, Terah,
 27Abram; the same is Abraham.
 28The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael. (1 Chron. 1:20‑28)
• Joktan, “small,” as distinguished from Peleg whose name, “division,” (“Genesis 10:26” by W. Kelly)
• The Chaldee paraphrase on 1 Chron. 1:19 suggests that Joktan derived his name from the diminution of human life at that time. Certain it is that then longevity sunk one half, judging by the recorded years of Peleg (xi. 18, 19) and of those that succeeded, diminishing by degrees to its ordinary range. (“Genesis 10:26” by W. Kelly)
• Joktan appears on abundant evidence of varied kinds to answer to the Arabic Kachttin. (“Genesis 10:26” by W. Kelly)
• {Almodad} The first enumerated corresponds with Mudád, or, as the word admits the article, El-Mudád....who held a central position in Yemen or Arabia Felix. (“Genesis 10:26” by W. Kelly)
• Next comes Sheleph or Shaleph. This name has been without reasonable doubt identified with the district of Sulaf or Salif in southern Arabia. (“Genesis 10:26” by W. Kelly)
• Hazarmaveth plainly answers to the district east of the modern Yemen, called by the Arabs Hadramawt (court of death), also in the south of Arabia, situated on the Indian Sea, and, if unhealthy, no less famous for its rich spices. One of its ports was Zafari, the Sephar of which we read later in this chapter. (“Genesis 10:26” by W. Kelly)
• Jerah or Yerach “the moon” is the fourth, which Michaelis in his Spicileg. ii. 60 finds in the “low land of the moon,” or in the “mount of the moon,” (“Genesis 10:26” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

W. Kelly Translation

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And Joktan begat Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Serah,