Genesis 10:2New Messianic Version BibleThe sons of Yefet (enlarged; fair; persuading); Gomer [complete] (to finish; complete), and Magog [land of God] (covering; roof; dissolving), and Madai (a measure; judging; a garment), and Yavan (deceiver; one who makes sad), and Tuval (the earth; the world; confusion), and Meshekh (who is drawn by force), and Tiras (pleasing). See the chapter |
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, [to] Tarshish [yellow jasper], Pul [distinguishing], and Lud [strife], that draw the bow, [to] Tuval [you shall be brought], and Yavan (Greece) [Ionia], [to] the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
Unto Shem (Name or Fame; the entire essence of a person) also, the father of all the children of ‘Ever (the region beyond; pass over, through, take away; overflowing of temper: wrath and rage; fury; to be arrogant or infuriate oneself), the brother of Yefet (terror, enlarged; fair; persuading, opened; Wide Spreading) the elder, even to him were [children] born.
In the ninth year of Hoshea [salvation] the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) took Shomron [watch mountain], and carried Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] away into Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), and placed them in Halach [painful] and in Havor [joining] [by] the river of Gozan [a cutting off], and in the cities of the Medes [middle land].