Go
Articles on

Genesis 11

Gen. 11:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

+
2
And it came to pass, as they journeyed
naca` (Hebrew #5265)
properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on a journey
KJV usage: cause to blow, bring, get, (make to) go (away, forth, forward, onward, out), (take) journey, march, remove, set aside (forward), X still, be on his (go their) way.
Pronounce: naw-sah'
Origin: a primitive root
from χthe east
qedem (Hebrew #6924)
from 6923; the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)
KJV usage: aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, X ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Compare 6926.
Pronounce: keh'-dem
Origin: or qedmah {kayd'-maw}
, that they found
matsa' (Hebrew #4672)
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
KJV usage: + be able, befall, being, catch, X certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), X have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-)on, meet (with), X occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
Pronounce: maw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
a plain
biq`ah (Hebrew #1237)
properly, a split, i.e. a wide level valley between mountains
KJV usage: plain, valley.
Pronounce: bik-aw'
Origin: from 1234
in the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
of Shinar
Shin`ar (Hebrew #8152)
Shinar, a plain in Babylonia
KJV usage: Shinar.
Pronounce: shin-awr'
Origin: probably of foreign derivation
; and they dwelt
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
there.
χ
or, eastward.

More on:

+
East,
Plain,
Shinar

Cross References

+

Ministry on This Verse

+
from the east.
or, eastward.
Gen. 13:11• 11Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. (Gen. 13:11)
Shinar.
Gen. 11:9• 9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. (Gen. 11:9)
;
Gen. 10:10• 10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. (Gen. 10:10)
;
Gen. 14:1• 1And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; (Gen. 14:1)
;
Isa. 11:11• 11And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. (Isa. 11:11)
;
Dan. 1:2• 2And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god. (Dan. 1:2)
;
Zech. 5:11• 11And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base. (Zech. 5:11)
• God originally had in blessing men said, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it. After the deluge, His word to Noah and his sons still was, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. But mankind, though awed by that judgment, had no care to do His will. Their mind was to keep together. And assuredly they pitched on a region, by its great rivers on either side and its exceeding fertility, eminently suited for their purpose; which was to constitute themselves a universal republic without God. (“Genesis 11:2-4” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

+
2
And it came to pass as they journeyed fromf the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there.

JND Translation Notes

+
f
Or "started for." Lit. "pulled up their tent-pegs."

W. Kelly Translation

+
2
And it came to pass as they journeyeda east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

WK Translation Notes

+
a
Lit. pulled up their tent-stakes.