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Havilah
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The sand region.
Havilah (1)
#A land mentioned in Gen. 2:11 rich in gold and bdellium and onyx stone. The question as to the locality of this region has given rise to a great diversity of opinion. It may perhaps be identified with the sandy tract which skirts Babylonia along the whole of its western border, stretching from the lower Euphrates to the mountains of Edom.
Havilah (2)
#A district in Arabia-Felix. It is uncertain whether the tribe gave its name to this region or derived its name from it, and whether it was originally a Cushite (Gen. 10:7) or a Joktanite tribe (10:29; comp. 25:18), or whether there were both a Cushite and a Joktanite Havilah. It is the opinion of Kalisch, however, that Havilah “in both instances designates the same country, extending at least from the Persian to the Arabian Gulf, and on account of its vast extent easily divided into two distinct parts.” This opinion may be well vindicated.
Havilah (3)
#Havilah (4)
#A son of Joktan (Gen. 10:29; 1 Chr. 1:23).
Also from Smith's (1884) +−
A part of Eden through which flowed the river Pison (Araxes). It was probably the Grecian Colchis, in the northeast corner of Asia Minor, near the Caspian Sea. A district in Arabia Felix, (Genesis 10:7) named from the second son of Cush; probably the district of Kualan, in the northwestern part of Yemen.
(circle).
A son of Cush. (Genesis 10:7) A son of Joktan. (Genesis 10:29)
In the Bible
7
Verses where Havilah is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- 1 Chronicles 1:9
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
- 1 Chronicles 1:23
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
- 1 Samuel 15:7
Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.
- Genesis 2:11
The name of the first river is the Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
- Genesis 10:7
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
- Genesis 10:29
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
+1 more verse naming Havilah.
Scripture on Havilah
5
Havilah references
12
Sources · Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869) · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)
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