Genesis 10 · Verse 17

Genesis 10:17

And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Genesis 10:17, King James Version

Genesis 10:17 in other translations

BSBthe Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
WEBthe Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
ASVand the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
YLTand the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
DARBYand the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
BBEAnd the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite,
WebsterAnd the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

What does Genesis 10:17 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 10:15-32

The posterity of Canaan were numerous, rich, and pleasantly seated; yet Canaan was under a Divine curse, and not a curse causeless. Those that are under the curse of God, may, perhaps, thrive and prosper in this world; for we cannot know love or hatred, the blessing or the curse, by what is before us, but by what is within us. The curse of God always works really, and always terribly. Perhaps it is a secret curse, a…

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Genesis 10:17 in the original Hebrew

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וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
הַֽחִוִּ֥יha.chi.Vithe Hivite[s]H2340
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
הַֽעַרְקִ֖יha.'ar.Kithe Arkite[s]H6208
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
הַסִּינִֽי\׃ha.si.Nithe Sinite[s]H5513

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Genesis 10:17

  • Genesis 34:2

    And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

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Context

  • Genesis 10:16

    And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

  • Genesis 10:17

    And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

  • Genesis 10:18

    And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

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Genesis 10:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y al Heveo, y al Araceo, y al Sineo,
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et le Hévien, et l’Arkien, et le Sinien,
German
Elberfelder 1871
und den Hewiter und den Arkiter und den Siniter,
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Hevæum, et Aracæum: Sinæum,