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Good News Translation

1 Chronicles 1:6

The descendants of Gomer were the people 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.
Contemporary English Version
Gomer was the ancestor of 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.
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

1 Adam was the father of Seth, Seth was the father of Enosh, Enosh the father of Kenan, 2 Kenan the father of Mahalalel, Mahalalel the father of Jared. 3 Jared was the father of Enoch, who was the father of Methuselah; Methuselah was the father of Lamech, 4 who was the father of Noah. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 5 The sons of Japheth—Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras—were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names. 6 The descendants of Gomer were the people of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 7 The descendants of Javan were the people of Elishah, Spain, Cyprus, and Rhodes. 8 The sons of Ham—Cush, Egypt, Libya, and Canaan—were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names. 9 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. 10 (Cush had a son named Nimrod, who became the world's first great conqueror.)

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 he named the light "Day" and the darkness "Night." Evening passed and morning came—that was the first day.
Genesis 1:6
Then God commanded, "Let there be a dome to divide the water and to keep it in two separate places"—and it was done. So God made a dome, and it separated the water under it from the water above it.
Genesis 1:8
He named the dome "Sky." Evening passed and morning came—that was the second day.
Genesis 1:11
Then he commanded, "Let the earth produce all kinds of plants, those that bear grain and those that bear fruit"—and it was done.
Genesis 1:12
So the earth produced all kinds of plants, and God was pleased with what he saw.
Genesis 1:13
Evening passed and morning came—that was the third day.
Genesis 1:14
Then God commanded, "Let lights appear in the sky to separate day from night and to show the time when days, years, and religious festivals begin;
Genesis 1:20
Then God commanded, "Let the water be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let the air be filled with birds."
Genesis 1:22
He blessed them all and told the creatures that live in the water to reproduce and to fill the sea, and he told the birds to increase in number.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us. They will have power over the fish, the birds, and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small."

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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