Genesis 10:8 - The Scriptures 2009

⁸ And Kush brought forth Nimroḏ, he began to be a mighty one on the earth.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on earth.

Genesis 10:8 Cross References

Genesis 10:7

And the sons of Kush: Seḇa, and Ḥawilah, and Saḇtah, and Ra‛mah, and Saḇteḵa. And the sons of Ra‛mah: Sheḇa and Deḏan.

Genesis 10:9

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

Genesis 2:13

And the name of the second river is Giḥon, it is the one surrounding the entire land of Kush.

1 Chronicles 1:10

And Kush brought forth Nimroḏ; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.

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 at its entrances. And He shall deliver us from Ashshur, when he comes into our land and when he treads within our borders.