GEN 10

Genesis 10:15

WEB

Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,

BSB

And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

KJV

¶ And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

Matthew Henry

Verses 15–20

Genesis 10:15–20

Observe here, 1. The account of the posterity of Canaan, of the families and nations that descended from him, and of the land they possessed, is more particular than of any other in this chapter, because these were the nations that were to be subdued before Israel, and their land was in process of time to become the holy land, Immanuel's land; and this God had an eye to when, in the mean time, he cast the lot of that accursed devoted race in that spot of ground which he had selected for his own people; this Moses takes notice of, Deu 32:8, When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. 2. By this account it appears that the posterity of Canaan were numerous, and rich, and very pleasantly situated; and yet Canaan was under a curse, a divine curse, and not a curse causeless. Note, Those that are under the curse of God may yet perhaps thrive and prosper greatly 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, Ecc 9:1. The curse of God always works really and always terribly: but perhaps it is a secret curse, a curse to the soul, and does not work visibly, or a slow curse, and does not work immediately; but sinners are by it reserved for, and bound over to, a day of wrath. Canaan here has a better land than either Shem or Japheth, and yet they have a better lot, for they inherit the blessing.

Cross-references: Deut 32:8 · Eccl 9:1

Hebrew interlinear

H3667

כְּנַעַןKᵉnaʻan/ken-ah'-an/

n-pr-m n-pr-loc n-m — Kenaan

Derivation: from 3665; humiliated;

Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him

KJV: Canaan, merchant, traffick.

כְּנַ֫עַן

n.[m.] — merchant

כְּנַ֫עַן n.[m.] merchant(s) (because Canaanites, esp. Phoenicians, were traders)

כְּנַ֫עַן

n.pr.m — Canaan

כְּנַ֫עַן 90 n.pr.m. et terr. Canaan

1. as n. pr. m., son of Ham

2.

a. land, W. of Jordan, into wh. Hebrews came, and where they settled, subduing the inhabitants

b. the coast, esp. Phoenicia

H3205

יָלַדyâlad/yaw-lad'/

v — bear young, beget, act as midwife, show lineage

Derivation: a primitive root;

to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage

KJV: bear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).

יָלַד

vb — bear

יָלַד 497 vb. bear, bring forth, beget

Qal

1. bear, bring forth

2. less often beget

3. of both parents

Niph. be born

Pi. cause (or help) to bring forth, viz., assist or tend as midwife

Pu. be born

Hiph.

1. beget (a father a child)

2. bear

Hoph. day of one's being born = birthday

Hithp. declared their pedigree

H853

אֵתʼêth/ayth/

prt — self, even, namely

Derivation: apparent contracted from 226 in the demonstrative sense of entity;

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

KJV: [as such unrepresented in English].

אֵת

mark of the accusative

אֵת the mark of the accusative, prefixed as a rule only to nouns that are definite

H6721

צִידוֹןTsîydôwn/tsee-done'/

n-pr-loc — Tsidon

Derivation: or צִידֹן; from 6679 in the sense of catching fish; fishery;

Tsidon, the name of a son of Canaan, and of a place in Palestine

KJV: Sidon, Zidon.

צִידוֹן

n.pr.loc — Sidon

צִידוֹן and צִידֹן n.pr.loc. Sidôn, ancient Phoenician city, on coast N. of Tyre;—‘first-born’ of Canaan

H1060

בְּכוֹרbᵉkôwr/bek-ore'/

n-m — first-born, chief

Derivation: from 1069;

first-born; hence, chief

KJV: eldest (son), firstborn(-ling).

בְּכוֹר

n.m — first-born

בְּכוֹר 122 n.m. first-born

1. men and women

2. animals

3. figurative

H2845

חֵתChêth/khayth/

n-pr-m — Cheth

Derivation: from 2865; terror;

Cheth, an aboriginal Canaanite

KJV: Heth.

חֵת

n.pr.m — Heth

חֵת n.pr.m. appar. represented as ancestor of Hittites

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