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King James Version (1611 Edition)

1 Chronicles 1:9

And the sonnes of Cush: Siba, and Hauilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sonnes 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.
Darby Translation
—And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
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.
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, Sheth, Enosh, 2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Iered, 3 Henoch, Methushelah, Lamech, 4 Noah, Shem, Ham, & Iapheth. 5 The sonnes of Iapheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Iauan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 6 And the sonnes of Gomer: Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. 7 And the sonnes of Iauan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 8 The sonnes of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 9 And the sonnes of Cush: Siba, and Hauilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sonnes of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan. 10 And Cush begate Nimrod: hee began to be mightie vpon 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 Heauen, and the Earth.
Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without forme, and voyd, and darkenesse was vpon the face of the deepe: and the Spirit of God mooued vpon the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:5
And God called the light, Day, and the darknesse he called Night: and the euening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis 1:6
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters: and let it diuide the waters from the waters.
Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament, Heauen: and the euening and the morning were the second day.
Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together vnto one place, and let the dry land appeare: and it was so.
Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the Earth bring foorth grasse, the herbe yeelding seed, and the fruit tree, yeelding fruit after his kinde, whose seed is in it selfe, vpon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said vnto them, Be fruitfull, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and haue dominion ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the aire, and ouer euery liuing thing that mooueth vpon the earth.
Genesis 1:29
And God said, Behold, I haue giuen you euery herbe bearing seede, which is vpon the face of all the earth, and euery tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yeelding seed, to you it shall be for meat:
Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the North ouer the emptie place, and hangeth the earth vpon 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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