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1 Chronicles 1:17

The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aram;   Arphaxad;   Asshur;   Genealogy;   Hul;   Lud;   Meshech;   Shem;   Syria;   Uz;   Thompson Chain Reference - Shem;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Genealogy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Arphaxad;   Asshur;   Lud;   Mash;   Uz;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Mash;   Uz;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Elam;   Hul;   Mash;   Meshech;   Meshek;   Table of Nations;   Uz;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Elam;   Genealogy of Jesus Christ;   Gether;   Lud, Ludim;   Mash;   Meshech;   Uz;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Aram ;   Arphaxad ;   Asshur ;   Elam ;   Gether ;   Hul;   Lud;   Meshech ;   Uz;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Aram;   Uz;   Smith Bible Dictionary - E'lam;   Lud;   Mash;   Ut;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Aram;   Arphaxad;   Elam;   Gether;   Hul;   Lud;   Mash;   Meshech;   Uz (1);   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Assyria;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Arphaxad;   Uz;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Shem’s sons: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
Hebrew Names Version
The sons of Shem: `Elam, and Ashshur, and Arpakhshad, and Lud, and Aram, and `Utz, and Hul, and Geter, and Meshekh.
King James Version
The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
English Standard Version
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. And the sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
New Century Version
Shem's sons were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. Aram's sons were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
New English Translation
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
Amplified Bible
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
New American Standard Bible
The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
World English Bible
The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The sonnes of Shem were Elam & Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Vz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
Legacy Standard Bible
The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
Contemporary English Version
Shem was the ancestor of Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech; they were the ancestors of the kingdoms named after them.
Complete Jewish Bible
The sons of Shem: ‘Elam, Ashur, Arpakhshad, Lud, Aram, ‘Utz, Hul, Geter and Meshekh.
Darby Translation
The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
Easy-to-Read Version
Shem's sons were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. Aram's sons were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
George Lamsa Translation
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphahshar, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gather, and Meshech.
Good News Translation
Shem's sons—Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshek—were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
Lexham English Bible
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
Literal Translation
The sons of Shem were Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The childre of Sem are these: Elam, Assur, Arphachsad, Lud, Aram, Vz, Hul, Gether & Masech.
American Standard Version
The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
Bible in Basic English
The sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram and Uz and Hul and Gether and Meshech.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The sonnes of Sem: Elam, and Assur, Arphacsad, Lud, and Aram, & Uz, Hul, and Gether, and Mesech.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The Sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
King James Version (1611)
The sonnes of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, & Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The sons of Sem, Ælam, and Assur,
English Revised Version
The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether., and Meshech.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The sones of Sem weren Elam, and Assur, and Arphaxat, and Luth, and Aram. Forsothe the sones of Aram weren Hus, and Hul, and Gothor, and Mosoch.
Update Bible Version
The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
Webster's Bible Translation
The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
New King James Version
The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech. Genesis 10:23">[fn]
New Living Translation
The descendants of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. The descendants of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
New Revised Standard
The descendants of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The sons of Shem, Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, - and Uz, and Hul, and Gethur, and Meshech.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The sons of Sem: Elam and Asur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Hus, and Hul, and Gether, and Mosoch.
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpach'shad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
Young's Literal Translation
Sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
THE MESSAGE
Shem had Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshech.

Contextual Overview

1 Adam, Seth, Enosh, 2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, 3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, 4 Noah and his sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. 5 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 6 The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah. 7 The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. 8 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 9 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan. 10 Cush was the father of Nimrod. He began to be a powerful one on the earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sons of Shem: Genesis 10:22-32, Genesis 11:10

Elam: Genesis 14:1, Isaiah 11:11, Isaiah 21:2, Isaiah 22:6, Jeremiah 25:25, Ezekiel 32:24, Daniel 8:2

Asshur: Numbers 24:22-24, Ezra 4:2, Psalms 83:8, Assur, Ezekiel 27:23, Ezekiel 32:22, Hosea 14:3

Lud: Isaiah 66:19, Ezekiel 27:10

Aram: Numbers 23:7

Meshech: Genesis 10:23, Mash

Reciprocal: Job 1:1 - Uz Jeremiah 25:20 - Uz Luke 3:36 - Sem

Cross-References

Genesis 9:13
I will set My rain-bow in the cloud, and it will be something special to see because of an agreement between Me and the earth.
Job 38:12
"Have you ever in your life told the morning when to come, and caused the first light of day to know its place,
Psalms 8:1
O Lord, our Lord, how great is Your name in all the earth. You have set Your shining-greatness above the heavens.
Psalms 8:3
When I look up and think about Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in their place,
Acts 13:47
The Lord gave us a work to do. He said, ‘You are to be a light to the people who are not Jews. You are to preach so that men over all the earth can be saved from the punishment of their sins.'"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The sons of Shem - i. e., descendants. Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech (or Mash), are stated to have been “sons of Aram” Genesis 10:23. Meshech is the reading of all the MSS., and is supported by the Septuagint here and in Genesis 10:23. It seems preferable to “Mash,” which admits of no very probable explanation. Just as Hamites and Semites were intermingled in Arabia (Genesis 10:7, note; Genesis 10:29, note), so Semites and Japhethites may have been intermingled in Cappadocia - the country of the Meshech or Moschi (Genesis 10:2 note); and this Aramaean ad-mixture may have been the origin of the notion, so prevalent among the Greeks, that the Cappadocians were Syrians.


 
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