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English Standard Version

1 Chronicles 1:6

The sons of Gomer: 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.
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.
Good News Translation
The descendants of Gomer were the people of Ashkenaz, Riphath, 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, Seth, Enosh; 2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared; 3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech; 4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 6 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 7 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. 8 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 9 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 10 Cush fathered Nimrod. He was the first on earth to be a mighty man.

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
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 separate the waters from the waters."
Genesis 1:7
And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so.
Genesis 1:8
And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
Genesis 1:11
And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth." And it was so.
Genesis 1:12
The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:13
And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years,
Genesis 1:20
And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens."
Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

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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