Genesis 10:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ And Kush brought forth Nimroḏ

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first to be a mighty man on the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

Common English Bible

⁸ Cush fathered Nimrod, the first great warrior on earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And then Cush conceived Nimrod; he began to be powerful on the earth.

Genesis 10:8 Cross References

Genesis 10:7

And the sons of Kush: Seḇ

Genesis 10:9

He was a mighty hunter before יהוה, therefore it is said, “Like Nimroḏ

Genesis 2:13

And the name of the second river is Giḥ

1 Chronicles 1:10

And Kush brought forth Nimroḏ

Isaiah 18:2

which sends envoys by sea, even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying, “Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth-skinned, to a people dreaded from their beginning onward, a nation mighty and trampling, whose land the rivers divide.”

Micah 5:6

And they shall shepherd the land of Ashshur with the sword, and the land of Nimroḏ