Genesis 11
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
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 throughly. 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.
Words in this chapter
Definitions are Strong's own wording from his Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Counts are how often each word appears in this chapter, from the tagged text.
- אֵתʼêthH85329× in this chapter
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
- יָלַדyâladH320527× in this chapter
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
- שָׁנֶהshânehH814126× in this chapter
a year (as a revolution of time)
- חָיָהchâyâhH242116× in this chapter
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
- בֵּןbênH112115× in this chapter
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
- מֵאָהmêʼâhH396710× in this chapter
a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
- בַּתbathH13239× in this chapter
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
- אַחַרʼacharH3109× in this chapter
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
- תֶּרַחTerachH86469× in this chapter
Terach, the father of Abraham; also a place in the Desert
- נָחוֹרNâchôwrH51528× in this chapter
Nochor, the name of the grandfather and a brother of Abraham
- אֶרֶץʼeretsH7768× in this chapter
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
- כֹּלkôlH36057× in this chapter
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
- שְׁלוֹשִׁיםshᵉlôwshîymH79707× in this chapter
thirty; or (ordinal) thirtieth
- הָיָהhâyâhH19616× in this chapter
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
- הָרָןHârânH20396× in this chapter
Haran, the name of two men
- שָׁםshâmH80336× in this chapter
there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence
- אַבְרָםʼAbrâmH876× in this chapter
Abram, the original name of Abraham
- יְהֹוָהYᵉhôvâhH30685× in this chapter
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
- עַלʻalH59215× in this chapter
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
- שָׂפָהsâphâhH81935× in this chapter
the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
- אֶחָדʼechâdH2594× in this chapter
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
- עֵבֵרʻÊbêrH56774× in this chapter
Eber, the name of two patriarchs and four Israelites
- פֶּלֶגPelegH63894× in this chapter
Peleg, a son of Shem
- פָּנִיםpânîymH64404× in this chapter
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
- אַרְבַּעʼarbaʻH7024× in this chapter
four
- רְעוּRᵉʻûwH74664× in this chapter
Reu, a postdiluvian patriarch
- אַרְפַּכְשַׁדʼArpakshadH7754× in this chapter
Arpakshad, a son of Noah; also the region settled by him
- שֶׁלַחShelachH79744× in this chapter
Shelach, a postdiluvian patriarch
- אִשָּׁהʼishshâhH8024× in this chapter
a woman
- שֵׁםshêmH80344× in this chapter
an appellation, as amark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
- שְׂרוּגSᵉrûwgH82864× in this chapter
Serug, a postdiluvian patriarch
- אָבʼâbH13× in this chapter
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
- בָּנָהbânâhH11293× in this chapter
to build (literally and figuratively)
- חָמֵשׁchâmêshH25683× in this chapter
five
- יָהַבyâhabH30513× in this chapter
to give (whether literal or figurative); generally, to put; imperatively (reflexive) come
- אָמַרʼâmarH5593× in this chapter
to say (used with great latitude)
- עִירʻîyrH58923× in this chapter
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
- עָשָׂהʻâsâhH62133× in this chapter
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
- פּוּץpûwtsH63273× in this chapter
to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
- שֵׁםShêmH80353× in this chapter
Shem, a son of Noah (often includ. his posterity)