Genesis · Chapter 11

Genesis 11:10

¹And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.²And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.³And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.⁴And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.⁵And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.⁶And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.⁷Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.⁸So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.⁹Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.¹⁰These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:¹¹And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.¹²And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:¹³And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.¹⁴And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:¹⁵And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.¹⁶And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:¹⁷And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.¹⁸And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:¹⁹And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.²⁰And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:²¹And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.²²And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:²³And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.²⁴And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:²⁵And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.²⁶And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.²⁷Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.²⁸And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.²⁹And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.³⁰But Sarai was barren; she had no child.³¹And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.³²And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

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10	These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:	This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.	These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood:

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English	Hebrew	Say it	Strong's	Meaning
these	אֵ֚לֶּה	'E-leh	H0428	these אֵ֫לֶּה (el.leh) 1) these 1a) used before antecedent 1b) used following antecedent Aramaic equivalent: el.leh (אֵלֶּה "these" H0429)
[are] [the] accounts of	תּוֹלְדֹ֣ת	tol-DOT	H8435	generation תּוֹלֵדוֹת (to.le.dah) 1) descendants, results, proceedings, generations, genealogies 1a) account of men and their descendants 1a1) genealogical list of one's descendants 1a2) one's contemporaries 1a3) course of history (of creation etc) 1b) begetting or account of heaven (metaph)
Shem	שֵׁ֔ם	Shem	H8035	Shem שֵׁם (shem) A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.5.32; son of: Noah (H5146); brother of: Ham (H2526) and Japheth (H3315); father of: Asshur (H0804H), Elam (H5867C), Arpachshad (H0775), Lud (H3865) and Aram (H0758) Also named: Sēm (Σήμ "Shem" G4590) § Shem = "name" the eldest son of Noah and progenitor of the Semitic tribes
Shem	שֵׁ֚ם	Shem	H8035	Shem שֵׁם (shem) A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.5.32; son of: Noah (H5146); brother of: Ham (H2526) and Japheth (H3315); father of: Asshur (H0804H), Elam (H5867C), Arpachshad (H0775), Lud (H3865) and Aram (H0758) Also named: Sēm (Σήμ "Shem" G4590) § Shem = "name" the eldest son of Noah and progenitor of the Semitic tribes
[was] a son of	בֶּן־	ben-	H1121L	No entry
one hundred	מְאַ֣ת	me-'AT	H3967	hundred מֵאָה (me.ah) 1) hundred 1a) as simple number 1b) as part of larger number 1c) as a fraction-one one-hundredth (1/100) Aramaic equivalent: me.ah (מְאָה "hundred" H3969)
year[s]	שָׁנָ֔ה	sha-NAH	H8141	year שְׁנָה (she.nah) year Aramaic of sha.neh (שָׁנָה "year" H8141)
and he fathered	וַיּ֖וֹלֶד	vai-YO-led	H3205	to beget יָלַד (ya.lad) 1) to bear, bringforth, beget, gender, travail 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to bear, bring forth 1a1a) of child birth 1a1b) of distress (simile) 1a1c) of wicked (behaviour) 1a2) to beget 1b) (Niphal) to be born 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to cause or help to bring forth 1c2) to assist or tend as a midwife 1c3) midwife (participle) 1d) (Pual) to be born 1e) (Hiphil) 1e1) to beget (a child) 1e2) to bear (fig. -of wicked bringing forth iniquity) 1f) (Hophal) day of birth, birthday (infinitive) 1g) (Hithpael) to declare one's birth (pedigree)
Arphaxad	אַרְפַּכְשָׁ֑ד	'ar-pakh-SHAD	H0775	Arpachshad אַרְפַּכְשַׁד (ar.pakh.shad) A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.22; son of: Shem (H8035); brother of: Asshur (H0804H), Elam (H5867C), Lud (H3865) and Aram (H0758); father of: Cainan (G2536); also called Arphaxad at Luk.3.36; Also named: Arphaxad (Ἀρφαξάδ "Arphaxad" G0742) § Arphaxad = "I shall fail as the breast: he cursed the breast-bottle" third son of Shem
two years	שְׁנָתַ֖יִם	she-na-TA-yim	H8141	year שְׁנָה (she.nah) year Aramaic of sha.neh (שָׁנָה "year" H8141)
after	אַחַ֥ר	'a-CHAR	H0310A	after אַחַר (a.char) 1) after the following part, behind (of place), hinder, afterwards (of time) 1a) as an adverb 1a1) behind (of place) 1a2) afterwards (of time) 1b) as a preposition 1b1) behind, after (of place) 1b2) after (of time) 1b3) besides 1c) as a conjunction 1c) after that 1d) as a substantive 1d1) hinder part 1e) with other prepositions 1e1) from behind 1e2) from following after
the flood	הַמַּבּֽוּל׃	ha-ma-BUL	H3999	flood מַבּוּל (mab.bul) 1) flood, deluge. 1a) Noah's flood that submerged the entire planet earth under water for about a year

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Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.