Genesis 25:15

Easy-to-Read Version

Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Update Bible Version
Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

New Century Version
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

New English Translation
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Webster's Bible Translation
Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

World English Bible
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Amplified Bible
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Adad, and Thema, and Ithur, and Nafir, and Cedma.

Young's Literal Translation
Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

Berean Standard Bible
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Contemporary English Version
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Complete Jewish Bible
Hadad, Teima, Y'tur, Nafish and Kedmah.

American Standard Version
Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

Bible in Basic English
Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ietur, Naphis, and Cedina.

Darby Translation
Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedmah.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedem;

King James Version (1611)
Hadar, and Tema, Ietur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

King James Version
Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

New Life Bible
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

New Revised Standard
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ha-dad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Hadar, and Tema, Ietur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

George Lamsa Translation
Hadar, Tema, Nator, Naphish, and Kedem.

Good News Translation
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hadar, and Thema, and Jethur, and Naphis, and Cedma.

Revised Standard Version
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Ked'emah.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Choddan, and Thaeman, and Jetur, and Naphes, and Kedma.

English Revised Version
Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

Christian Standard Bible®
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Hebrew Names Version
Hadad, Tema, Yetur, Nafish, and Kedemah.

Lexham English Bible
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Literal Translation
Hadad, and Tema, and Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Hadar, Thema, Iethur, Naphis and Kedma.

New American Standard Bible
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

New King James Version
Hadar, [fn] Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

New Living Translation
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.

Legacy Standard Bible
Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ After Abraham died, God blessed Isaac. Isaac was living at Beer Lahai Roi. ¹² This is the list of Ishmael's family. Ishmael was Abraham and Hagar's son. (Hagar was Sarah's Egyptian maid.) ¹³ These are the names of Ishmael's sons: The first son was Nebaioth; then Kedar was born, then Adbeel, Mibsam, ¹⁴ Mishma, Dumah, Massa, ¹⁵ Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. ¹⁶ These were the names of Ishmael's sons. Each son had his own camp that became a small town. The twelve sons were leaders over their own people. ¹⁷ Ishmael lived to be 137 years old. Then he died and went to be with his people. ¹⁸ His descendants settled throughout the desert area from Havilah to Shur. This area begins near Egypt and goes toward Assyria. Ishmael's people were often at war with the other descendants of Abraham.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hadar: or, Hadad, More than 300 manuscripts and printed editions read Hadad, as in 1 Chronicles 1:30.

Tema: 1 Chronicles 5:19, Job 2:11

Naphish: These are evidently the same people mentioned in 1 Chronicles 5:19, who, with the Itureans, assisted the Hagarenes against the Israelites, but were overcome by the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 1:31 - Jetur Job 6:19 - Tema Isaiah 21:14 - Tema Jeremiah 25:23 - Dedan

Cross-References

1 Chronicles 5:19
They started a war against the Hagrites and the people of Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab.

Job 2:11
Job's three friends heard about all the bad things that happened to him, so Eliphaz came from Teman, Bildad from Shuah, and Zophar from Naamah. They met together and went to comfort Job and show him their sympathy.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hadar and Tema,.... From the first of these the city Adra in Arabia Petraea, and from the other the city Themma in Arabia Deserta, both mentioned by Ptolemy r, may be thought to have their names; or the city Adari and the Athritae in Arabia Felix s; and the inhabitants of the land of Tema are mentioned as Arabians,

Isaiah 21:13; and Pliny t speaks of a people called Thimaneans, whom he says the ancients joined to the Nabathaeans: the troops of Tema mentioned in Job were of this people, Job 6:19; and Eliphaz the Temanite, Job 2:11, is thought by some not to be the descendant of Teman the grandson of Esau, but to be of this man's people and country. The three last sons follow:

Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah; the two first of these are reckoned among the Hagarites, as the Ishmaelites were sometimes called, 1 Chronicles 5:19; from Jetur came the Itureans, whom Pliny u places in Coelesyria; and their country Iturea is reckoned by Strabo w along with Arabia; and the Ithyreans with Virgil x are famous for their bows, as Ishmael and his posterity were for archery in all ages, and still are,

1 Chronicles 5:19- :. As for the posterity of Naphish and Kedomah, we have no account elsewhere, nor any traces of their names, unless those of the latter should be meant by the men of the east, or the men of Kedem, Jeremiah 49:28, which is not improbable, since they are mentioned with the posterity of Kedar the second son of Ishmael; and the Nubaeans by Lebanon may be from Naphish.

r Geograph. l. 5. c. 17, 19. s Ibid. l. 6. c. 7. t Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 28. u Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 23. w Geograph. l. 16. p. 520. x Georgic. l. 2. ver. 448.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- Section XI. - Isaac

- LII. History of Ishmael

13. נבית n^ebāyot, Nebajoth, “heights.” קדר qēdār, Qedar, “black.” אדבאל 'adb^e'ēl, Adbeel, “miracle of God?” מבשׂם mı̂bśām Mibsam, “sweet odor.”

14. משׁמע mı̂shma‛, Mishma‘, “hearing.” דוּמה dûmâh, Dumah, “silence.” משׂא maśā', Massa, “burden.”

15. חדר chădar, Chadar, “chamber;” or חדד chădad, Chadad, “sharpness;” תימא tēymā', Tema. יטוּר y^eṭûr, Jetur, “enclosure,” akin to טוּר ṭûr, “a wall,” and טירה ṭı̂yrâh, “a wall.” נפישׁ nāpı̂ysh, Naphish, “breathing.” קדמה qēd^emâh, Qedemah, “before, eastward.”

16. חצר chātsēr, “court, village, town.”

According to custom, before the history of the principal line is taken up, that of the collateral branch is briefly given. Thus, Cain’s history is closed before Sheth’s is commenced; Japheth and Ham are before Shem; Haran and Nahor before Abram. And so the sons of Keturah are first dismissed from the pages of history, and then Ishmael.

Genesis 25:12

The present passage begins with the formula, “and these are the generations,” and forms the eighth document so commencing. The appearance of a document consisting of seven verses is clearly against the supposition that each of these documents is due to a different author. The phrase points to a change of subject, not of author.

Genesis 25:13-16

Nebaioth - Isaiah 60:7 is preserved in the Nabataei inhabiting Arabia Petraea, and extending far toward the East. “Kedar” Isaiah 21:17 appears in the Cedrei of Pliny (H. N. 5, 12) who dwell east of Petraea. “Adbeel Mibsam,” and “Mishma are otherwise unknown. The last is connected with the Μαισαιμενεῖς Maisaimeneis of Ptol. (v. 7, 21). “Dumah” Isaiah 21:11 is probably Δούμεθα Doumetha (Ptol. vi. 19, 7) and Domata (Plin. H. N. 6, 32) and Dumat el-Jendel in Nejd and the Syrian desert. “Massa” may be preserved in the Μασανοὶ Masanoi of Ptolemy (v. 19, 2), northeast of Duma. “Hadar” is Hadad in 1 Chronicles 1:30, the Samaritan Pentateuch, Onkelos, perhaps the Septuagint, and many codices. It is supposed to be Χαττηνία Chatteenia (Polyb.), Attene, and to lie between Oman and Bahrein. “Tema” Job 6:19; Isaiah 21:14; Jeremiah 25:23 lay on the borders of Nejd and the Syrian desert. “Jetur” remains in Ituraea, Jedur, northeast of the sea of Galilee. Some suppose the Druses descended from him. “Naphish” 1 Chronicles 6:19, 1 Chronicles 6:22 lay in the same quarter. “Kedemah” is otherwise unknown. “In their towns and in their castles.” The former are unwalled collections of houses or perhaps tents; the latter, fortified keeps or encampments. “Twelve princes,” one for each tribe, descended from his twelve sons.

Genesis 25:17-18

Ishmael dies at the age of a hundred and thirty-seven. “From Havilah,” on the borders of Arabia Petraea and Felix. “Unto Shur,” on the borders of Arabia and Egypt. This was the original seat of the Ishmaelites, from which they wandered far into Arabia. “In the presence of all his brethren” - the descendants of Abraham by Sarah and Keturah, those of Lot, and the Egyptians who were his brethren or near kindred by his mother and wife. “He had fallen” into the lot of his inheritance. Thus was fulfilled the prediction uttered before his birth Genesis 16:12.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Genesis 25:15. Hadar — This name should be read Hadad as in 1 Chronicles 1:30. This reading is supported by more than three hundred MSS., versions, and printed editions. See Clarke on Genesis 25:18.

Tema — Supposed to be a place in Arabia Deserta, the same of which Job speaks, Job 6:19.

Jetur — From whom came the Itureans, who occupied a small tract of country beyond Jordan, which was afterwards possessed by the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Naphish — These are evidently the same people mentioned 1 Chronicles 5:19, who, with the Itureans and the people of Nadab, assisted the Hagarenes against the Israelites, but were overcome by the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Kedemah — Probably the descendants of this person dwelt at Kedemoth, a place mentioned Deuteronomy 2:26. I wish the reader to observe, that concerning those ancient tribes mentioned here or elsewhere in the Pentateuch little is known; nor of their places of settlement have we more certain information. On this subject many learned men have toiled hard with but little fruit of their labour. Those who wish to enter into discussions of this nature must consult Bochart's Geographia Sacra, Calmet, &c.