Genesis 10:29

29 Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

Genesis 10:29 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.
English Standard Version (ESV)
29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
New Living Translation (NLT)
29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were descendants of Joktan.
The Message Bible (MSG)
29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab - all sons of Joktan.
American Standard Version (ASV)
29 and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. These were Joktan's sons.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were Joktan's sons.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
29 Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All of them were sons of Joktan.

Genesis 10:29 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 10:29

And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab
If several of the sons of Joktan went into India, as the Arabs say, one would be tempted to think that Ophir in India, whither Solomon sent his ships once in three years, had its name from the first of these; (See Gill on Genesis 10:26) but as this would be carrying him too far from the rest of his brethren, who appear to have settled in Arabia, some place must be found for him there; and yet there is none in which there is any likeness of the name, unless Coper can be thought to be, a village in the country of the Cinaedocolpites, on the Arabian Gulf, as in Ptolemy F6, or Ogyris, an island in the same sea, Pliny F7 makes mention of the same with the Organa of Ptolemy F8, placed by him on the Sachalite bay; wherefore Bochart F9 looks out elsewhere for a seat for this Ophir, or "Oupheir", as in the Septuagint version, and finding in a fragment of Eupolemus, preserved by Eusebius F11, mention made of the island of Ourphe, which he thinks should be Ouphre, or Uphre, situated in the Red sea, seems willing to have it to be the seat of this man and his posterity, and that it had its name from him; or that their seat was among the Cassanites or Gassandae, the same perhaps with the tribe of Ghassan, Aupher and Chasan signifying much the same, even great abundance and treasure: Havilah, next mentioned, is different from Havilah, the son of Cush, ( Genesis 10:7 ) and so his country; but it is difficult where to fix him; one would rather think that the Avalite bay, emporium, and people, should take their name from him than from Obal, ( Genesis 10:28 ) but Bochart F12 chooses to place him and his posterity in Chaulan, a country in Arabia Felix, in the extreme part of Cassanitis, near the Sabaeans: and Jobab, the last of Joktan's sons, was the father of the Jobabites, called by Ptolemy F13 Jobarites, corruptly for Jobabites, as Salmasius and Bochart think; and who are placed by the above geographer near the Sachalites in Arabia Felix, whose country was full of deserts, as Jobab in Arabic signifies, so Bochart F14 observes, as the countries above the Sachalite bay were, by which these Jobabites are placed:

all these were the sons of Joktan;
the thirteen before mentioned, all which had their dwelling in Arabia or near it, and which is further described in the following verse.


FOOTNOTES:

F6 Geograph. l. 6. c. 7.
F7 Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 28.
F8 Ut supra. (Geograph. l. 6. c. 7.)
F9 Phaleg. l. 2. c. 27.
F11 Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 30. p. 457.
F12 Ut supra, (Phaleg. l. 2.) c. 20.
F13 Ut supra. (Geograph. l. 6. c. 7.)
F14 Ut supra, (Phaleg. l. 2.) c. 29.

Genesis 10:29 In-Context

27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
29 Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
30 The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
31 These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

Cross References 1

  • 1. 1 Kings 9:28; 1 Kings 10:11; 1 Chronicles 29:4; Job 22:24; Job 28:16; Psalms 45:9; Isaiah 13:12
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