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Contemporary English Version

1 Chronicles 1:6

Gomer was the ancestor of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ashkenaz;   Genealogy;   Gomer;   Japheth;   Riphath;   Togarmah;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Genealogy;   Riphath;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Diphath;   Gomer;   Riphath;   Table of Nations;   Togarmah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ashkenaz;   Diphath;   Genealogy of Jesus Christ;   Madai;   Riphath;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ashkenaz, Ashchenaz ;   Gomer ;   Riphath ;   Togarmah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ashkenaz;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ash'chenaz;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Armenia;   Diphath;   Genealogy;   North;   Riphath;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ashkenaz;   Dalet (ש);   Gomer;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Gomer’s sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Hebrew Names Version
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Difat, and Togarmah.
King James Version
And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
English Standard Version
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
New Century Version
Gomer's sons were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
New English Translation
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Amplified Bible
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.
New American Standard Bible
The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.
World English Bible
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the sonnes of Gomer, Ashchenaz, and Iphath and Togarmah.
Legacy Standard Bible
The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.
Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Complete Jewish Bible
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Difat and Togarmah.
Darby Translation
—And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah.
Easy-to-Read Version
The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
George Lamsa Translation
And the sons of Gomer: Ashchenaz, Diphar, and Togarmah.
Good News Translation
The descendants of Gomer were the people of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Lexham English Bible
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.
Literal Translation
And the sons of Gomer were Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The children of Gomer are these: Ascenas, Riphat Togarma.
American Standard Version
And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah.
Bible in Basic English
And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Diphath and Togarmah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The sonnes of Gomer: Aschenaz, Riphath, and Thogarma.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah.
King James Version (1611)
And the sonnes of Gomer: Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the sons of Gamer, Aschanaz, and Riphath, and Thorgama.
English Revised Version
And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe the sones of Gomer weren Asceneth, and Riphat, and Thogorma.
Update Bible Version
And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
New King James Version
The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Diphath, Genesis 10:3">[fn] and Togarmah.
New Living Translation
The descendants of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
New Life Bible
The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.
New Revised Standard
The descendants of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the sons of Gomer, Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez, and Riphath, and Thogorma.
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Gomer: Ash'kenaz, Diphath, and Togar'mah.
Young's Literal Translation
And sons of Gomer: Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
THE MESSAGE
Gomer had Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.

Contextual Overview

1Adam was the father of Seth, and his descendants were Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah, who had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 5 Japheth was the father of Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras, and they were the ancestors of the kingdoms named after them. 6 Gomer was the ancestor of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 7 Javan was the ancestor of Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 8 Ham was the father of Ethiopia, Egypt, Put, and Canaan, and they were the ancestors of the kingdoms named after them. 9 Ethiopia was the ancestor of Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah was the ancestor of Sheba and Dedan. 10 Ethiopia was also the father of Nimrod, the world's first mighty warrior. 11 Egypt was the ancestor of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 12 Pathrusim, Casluhim, and Caphtorim, the ancestor of the Philistines. 13 Canaan's oldest son was Sidon; his other son was Heth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ashchenaz: Genesis 10:3, Ashkenaz

Riphath: or Diphath, as it is in some copies

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 51:27 - Ashchenaz Ezekiel 27:14 - Togarmah Ezekiel 38:6 - Togarmah

Cross-References

Genesis 1:5
and named the light "Day" and the darkness "Night." Evening came and then morning—that was the first day.
Genesis 1:6

The Second Day

God said, "I command a dome to separate the water above it from the water below it."
Genesis 1:7
And that's what happened. God made the dome
Genesis 1:8
and named it "Sky." Evening came and then morning—that was the second day.
Genesis 1:11
God said, "I command the earth to produce all kinds of plants, including fruit trees and grain." And that's what happened.
Genesis 1:12
The earth produced all kinds of vegetation. God looked at what he had done, and it was good.
Genesis 1:13
Evening came and then morning—that was the third day.
Genesis 1:14

The Fourth Day

God said, "I command lights to appear in the sky and to separate day from night and to show the time for seasons, special days, and years.
Genesis 1:20

The Fifth Day

God said, "I command the ocean to be full of living creatures, and I command birds to fly above the earth."
Genesis 1:22
Then he gave the living creatures his blessing—he told the ocean creatures to live everywhere in the ocean and the birds to live everywhere on earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 1:6. To this verse the Targum adds, "And the names of their countries were Asia, and Persia, and Barbary."


 
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