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1 Chronicles 1:39

The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Timna was Lotan’s sister.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Timna was Lotan’s sister.

  • KJV King James Version

    And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and Timna was Lotan’s sister.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And the sons of Lotan: Hori, and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister.

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Contradictions (1)

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  • Who was Timnah?

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Cross-references (3)

Passages linked to 1 Chronicles 1:39 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Genesis 36:22 The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan’s sister was Timna.
  • Deuteronomy 2:12 The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
  • Deuteronomy 2:22 as he did for the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day.

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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (39) And Timna was Lotan’s sister.—This appears to mean…

(39) And Timna was Lotan’s sister.—This appears to mean that the tribe settled in the town of Timna was akin to the sons of Lotan, but not a subdivision of that tribe. Towns are feminine in Hebrew, and are sometimes called mothers (2Sa_20:19), sometimes daughters.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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