Genesis 15 · Verse 21

Genesis 15:21

And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Genesis 15:21, King James Version

Genesis 15:21 in other translations

BSBAmorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
WEBthe Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
ASVand the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
YLTand the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.'
DARBYand the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
BBEAnd the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
WebsterAnd the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

What does Genesis 15:21 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 15:9-21

9-21. Take me an heifer, &c.--On occasions of great importance, when two or more parties join in a compact, they either observe precisely the same rites as Abram did, or, where they do not, they invoke the lamp as their witness. According to these ideas, which have been from time immemorial engraven on the minds of Eastern people, the Lord Himself condescended to enter into covenant with Abram. The patriarch did not…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 15:17-21

The smoking furnace and the burning lamp, probably represented the Israelites' severe trials and joyful deliverance, with their gracious supports in the mean time. It is probable that this furnace and lamp, which passed between the pieces, burned and consumed them, and so completed the sacrifice, and testified God's acceptance of it. So it intimates that God's covenants with man are made by sacrifice, Psa 50:5. And…

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Genesis 15:21 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.

וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
הָֽאֱמֹרִי֙ha.'e.mo.Rithe Amorite[s]H567
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔יha.ke.na.'a.Nithe Canaanite[s]H3669
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
הַגִּרְגָּשִׁ֖יha.gir.ga.Shithe Girgashite[s]H1622
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
הַיְבוּסִֽי\׃\ \סhay.vu.Sithe Jebusite[s]H2983

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Cross references for Genesis 15:21

  • Exodus 23:23-28

    For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. …

  • Exodus 33:2

    And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

  • Genesis 10:15-19

    And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. …

  • Matthew 8:28

    And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.

  • Exodus 34:11

    Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  • Deuteronomy 7:1

    When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Amorites.
10:15-19; Ex 23:23-28; 33:2; 34:11; De 7:1
Girgashites.
Mt 8:28

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

Context

  • Genesis 15:20

    And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

  • Genesis 15:21

    And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

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Genesis 15:21 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y los Amorrheos, y los Cananeos, y los Gergeseos, y los Jebuseos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et l’Amoréen, et le Cananéen, et le Guirgasien, et le Jébusien.
German
Elberfelder 1871
und die Amoriter und die Kanaaniter und die Girgasiter und die Jebusiter.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
et Amorrhæos, et Chananæos, et Gergesæos, et Jebusæos.