...family, settled at 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...

...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...

...Abimael, and Sheba, 29 AndOphir, and Havilah, and Jobab : all these me re the sons of Joktan. 30 And dieir hX ~ I 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...

...Abimael, and Sheba, 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...

...Terah from Ur of the Chusdim*. (£.) 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...

...and Sheba, 29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab : all these ivere the sons of Joktan. 30 And their cup is found. 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...

...Abimael, and Sheba, 29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab : all these were the sons'of Joktan. 30 And their But his wife 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...

...parts of the world after the flood, Gen. x. 29, 30. " All these were the sons of Joktan, and their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the cast." Now as China lies directly east of that part of the world where the posterity of Eber settled,...

...Shem is spoken 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,...whom as surely descended Mohammed and the Semitic propagators of the monotheistic creed of the Koran ; as came the Hebrews, according to Jewish belief,...