Genesis 10 · Verse 23

Genesis 10:23

And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
Genesis 10:23, King James Version

Genesis 10:23 in other translations

BSBThe sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
WEBThe sons of Aram were: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
ASVAnd the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
YLTAnd sons of Aram are Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
DARBYAnd the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
BBEAnd the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.
WebsterAnd the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

What does Genesis 10:23 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
23. Aram--In the general division of the earth, the countries of Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Syria, fell to his descendants.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 23 Uz - Who peopled Caelosyria, and is supposed to have been the founder of Damascus. Hul - Who peopled a part of Armenia. Gether - Supposed by Calmet to have been the founder of the Itureans, who dwelt beyond the Jordan, having Arabia Desert on the east, and the Jordan on the west. Mash - Who inhabited mount Masius in Mesopotamia, and from whom the river Mazeca, which has its source in that mountain, takes its name.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

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 10:23 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וּבְנֵ֖יu.ve.Neiand [the] sons ofH1121
אֲרָ֑ם'a.RamAramH758
ע֥וּץ'utz[were] UzH5780
וְח֖וּלve.Chuland HulH2343
וְגֶ֥תֶרve.Ge.terand GetherH1666
וָמַֽשׁ\׃va.Mashand MashH4851

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

Cross references for Genesis 10:23

  • Job 1:1

    There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

  • Jeremiah 25:20

    And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Uz.
Job 1:1; Jer 25:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Genesis 10:22

    The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

  • Genesis 10:23

    And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

  • Genesis 10:24

    And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

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Genesis 10:23 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y los hijos de Aram: Uz, y Hul, y Gether, y Mas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		– Et les fils d’Aram: Uts, et Hul, et Guéther, et Mash.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und die Söhne Arams: Uz und Hul und Gether und Masch.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Filii Aram: Us, et Hul, et Gether, et Mes.