...Ur of the Chaldees, Gen. xi. 31. Of the descendants of Joktan, Moses said that " their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the east," Gen. x. 30. Faber conjectures that they were the ancestors of the great body of the Hindus, who still...

...Bengalee, signify the same thing. The posterity of SHEM, we are told in scripture, dwelt in the country extending from Mesha as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of .the East. This seems to be meant as an explanation of the word Sephar, and at all events implies, that this mountain...

...29 AndOphir, and Havilah, and Jobab : all these me re the sons of Joktan. 30 And dieir dwelling was A`B w ÔT d M[Z- L Jf 5 31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their...

...ii, 35. SEPHAR, a mountain of the east, probably about Armenia. The sons of Joktan had their dwelling from Mesha, "As thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the East." Gen. x, 29. Caltnet believes these mountains to have been the dwelling of the Stpharvaim, of which...

...29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab : all these were the sons of Joktan. 30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their...

...the Chusdim *. (2.) Of the numerous children of Joktan it is said by Moses, that their dwelling was from Mesha as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east : hence, whatever be the precise situation of mount Sephar, they evidently spread themselves in an...

...29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab : all these ivere the sons of Joktan. 30 And their dwelling was 17 And he said, 'God forbid that I JPW.I should do 31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their...

...29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab : all these were the sons'of Joktan. 30 And their dwelling was looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of sa 31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their...

...that the other son of Eber was Joktan, of whose descendants it. is said, li And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the east." So that Mesha and Sephar, which were to the east, point out the situation of these descendants of Joktan,...

...of as the father of all the children of Eber, of whom came Joktan and his sons, " whose dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the East," and of whom as surely descended Mohammed and the Semitic propagators of the monotheistic creed of the...