1 Chronicles 1:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּנֵ֣י שֵׁ֔ם עֵילָ֣ם וְאַשּׁ֔וּר וְאַרְפַּכְשַׁ֖ד וְל֣וּד וַאֲרָ֑ם וְע֥וּץ וְח֖וּל וְגֶ֥תֶר וָמֶֽשֶׁךְ׃ ס

Transliteration

bənê Šēm ʿÊlām wə-ʾAššûr wə-ʾArpakšad wə-Lûd wa-ʾĂrām wə-ʿÛṣ wə-Ḥûl wə-Geter wā-Mešek

Grammar Details

• *bənê*: noun, masculine, plural construct - sons of
• *Šēm*: proper noun, masculine, singular - Shem
• *ʿÊlām*: proper noun, masculine, singular - Elam
• *wə-ʾAššûr*: conjunction + proper noun, masculine, singular - and Asshur
• *wə-ʾArpakšad*: conjunction + proper noun, masculine, singular - and Arphaxad
• *wə-Lûd*: conjunction + proper noun, masculine, singular - and Lud
• *wa-ʾĂrām*: conjunction + proper noun, masculine, singular - and Aram
• *wə-ʿÛṣ*: conjunction + proper noun, masculine, singular - and Uz
• *wə-Ḥûl*: conjunction + proper noun, masculine, singular - and Hul
• *wə-Geter*: conjunction + proper noun, masculine, singular - and Gether
• *wā-Mešek*: conjunction + proper noun, masculine, singular - and Meshech
• ס: paragraph marker

Word Meanings

• *bənê*: sons of/descendants of

Referenced Verses

• Gen 10:22-32 : 22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. 23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. 24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. 25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one [was] Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name [was] Joktan. 26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, 27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, 28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, 29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these [were] the sons of Joktan. 30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east. 31 These [are] the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. 32 These [are] the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
• Gen 11:10 : 10 ¶ These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
• Gen 14:1 : 1 ¶ And 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;
• Num 23:7 : 7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, [saying], Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
• Num 24:22-24 : 22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive. 23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this! 24 And ships [shall come] from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
• Ezra 4:2 : 2 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye [do]; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
• Ps 83:8 : 8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
• Isa 11:11 : 11 And 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 21:2 : 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
• Isa 22:6 : 6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
• Isa 66:19 : 19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, [to] Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, [to] Tubal, and Javan, [to] the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
• Jer 25:25 : 25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
• Ezek 27:10 : 10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
• Ezek 27:23 : 23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, [and] Chilmad, [were] thy merchants.
• Ezek 32:22 : 22 Asshur [is] there and all her company: his graves [are] about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
• Ezek 32:24 : 24 There [is] Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
• Dan 8:2 : 2 And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I [was] at Shushan [in] the palace, which [is] in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.
• Hos 14:3 : 3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.