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The Darby Translation

1 Chronicles 1:9

—And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cush;   Dedan;   Ethiopia;   Genealogy;   Ham;   Havilah;   Raamah;   Sabta;   Sabtecha;   Seba;   Sheba;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Genealogy;   Raamah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Sabtah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cush (2);   Sabtah;   Sabtecha;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Raama(h);   Table of Nations;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Genealogy of Jesus Christ;   Havilah;   Raamah;   Seba;   Sheba;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Cush;   Dedan ;   Havilah ;   Raamah ;   Sabta, Sabtah ;   Sabtecha, Sabtechah ;   Seba ;   Sheba ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Dedan;   Smith Bible Dictionary - De'dan;   Sab'tah;   Sab'techa,;   Se'ba;   She'ba;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Havilah;   Raama;   Sabta;   Sabteca;   Seba;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Dedanim;   Sabeans;   Sibyl;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Cush’s sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca.
Hebrew Names Version
The sons of Kush: Seva, and Havilah, and Savtah, and Ra`mah, and Savtekha. The sons of Ra`mah: Sheva, and Dedan.
King James Version
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
English Standard Version
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
New Century Version
Cush's sons were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah's sons were Sheba and Dedan.
New English Translation
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
Amplified Bible
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca. The sons of Raama: Sheba and Dedan.
New American Standard Bible
The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raama were Sheba and Dedan.
World English Bible
The sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the sonnes of Cush, Siba and Hauilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. Also the sonnes of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
Legacy Standard Bible
The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raama were Sheba and Dedan.
Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
Contemporary English Version
Ethiopia was the ancestor of Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah was the ancestor of Sheba and Dedan.
Complete Jewish Bible
The sons of Kush: S'va, Havilah, Savta, Ra‘ma and Savt'kha. The sons of Ra‘ma: Sh'va and D'dan.
Easy-to-Read Version
The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
George Lamsa Translation
And the sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabachtha. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Daran.
Good News Translation
The descendants of Cush were the people of Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah were the people of Sheba and Dedan.
Lexham English Bible
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
Literal Translation
and the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The children of Chus are these: Seba, Heuila, Sabtha, Reyma & Sabthecha. The childre of Reyma are these: Sheba & Dedan.
American Standard Version
And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
Bible in Basic English
And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabta and Raama and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The sonnes of Chus: Seba, and Hauila, Sabbetha, and Raama: and Sabtheca. And the sonnes of Raama: Seba, and Dedan.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raama: Sheba, and Dedan.
King James Version (1611)
And the sonnes of Cush: Siba, and Hauilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sonnes of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the sons of Chus, Saba, and Evila, and Sabatha, and Regma, and Sebethaca: and the sons of Regma, Saba, and Dadan.
English Revised Version
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli the sones of Chus weren Saba, and Euila, Sabatha, and Regma, and Sabathaca. Forsothe the sones of Regma weren Saba, and Dadan.
Update Bible Version
And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
New King James Version
The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Genesis 10:7">[fn] Raama, Genesis 10:7">[fn] and Sabtecha. The sons of Raama were Sheba and Dedan.
New Living Translation
The descendants of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
New Life Bible
The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
New Revised Standard
The descendants of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the sons of Cush, Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And, the sons of Raamah, Sheba, and Dedan.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, Sabatha, and Regma, and Sabathaca. And the sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Cush: Seba, Hav'ilah, Sabta, Ra'ama, and Sab'teca. The sons of Ra'amah: Sheba and Dedan.
Young's Literal Translation
And sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecka. And sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
THE MESSAGE
Cush had Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah had Sheba and Dedan.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.

Contextual Overview

1 Adam, Seth, Enosh, 2 Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, 3 Enoch, Methushelah, Lemech, 4 Noah; Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 6 —And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah. 7 And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim. 8 The sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim, Phut and Canaan. 9 —And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 10 And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Sabta: i.e. he compassed the chamber; to surround, [Strong's H5454]. Genesis 10:7, Sabtechah, i.e. terror, [Strong's H5455], Genesis 10:7

Reciprocal: Isaiah 21:13 - O ye Ezekiel 27:15 - Dedan Ezekiel 27:22 - Sheba

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:2
And the earth was waste and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
Genesis 1:6
And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a division between waters and waters.
Genesis 1:8
And God called the expanse Heavens. And there was evening, and there was morning—a second day.
Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry [land] appear. And it was so.
Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the earth cause grass to spring up, herb producing seed, fruit-trees yielding fruit after their kind, the seed of which is in them, on the earth. And it was so.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every animal that moveth on the earth.
Genesis 1:29
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb producing seed that is on the whole earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree producing seed: it shall be food for you;
Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 1:9. Seba, and Havilah — "Sindi and Hindi, and Semadaei, and Libyes and the Zingitae; but the sons of the Mauritanians, Demargad and Mesag." - T.


 
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