Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers: they bartered with thee the persons of men, and vessels of bronze.

New American Standard Bible

Javan, Tubal and Meshech, they were your traders; with the lives of men and vessels of bronze they paid for your merchandise.

King James Version

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

Holman Bible

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your merchants. They exchanged slaves and bronze utensils for your goods.

International Standard Version

Greece, Tubal, and Meshech bartered with you, exchanging slaves and bronze vessels for your wares.

A Conservative Version

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants. They traded the persons of men, and vessels of brass for thy merchandise.

American Standard Version

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for thy merchandise.

Amplified

Javan (Greece), Tubal and Meshech (Asia Minor) traded with you; with the lives of men [taken as slaves] and vessels of bronze they paid for your merchandise.

Bible in Basic English

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; they gave living men and brass vessels for your goods.

Julia Smith Translation

Javan, Tubal and Meshech, they thy merchants: they gave from thy traffic in the soul of man, and vessels of brass.

King James 2000

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of bronze in your market.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; {in exchange for people} and an object of bronze they gave [you] your wares.

Modern King James verseion

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your merchants. They traded the souls of men and vessels of bronze for your goods.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Javan, Tubal and Meshech were thy merchants, which brought the men, and ornaments of metal for thy occupying.

NET Bible

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your clients; they exchanged slaves and bronze items for your merchandise.

New Heart English Bible

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise.

The Emphasized Bible

Javan. Tubal and Meshech, They were merchants of thine, - With the persons of men and vessels of bronze, Shared they in thy barter:

Webster

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded in the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

World English Bible

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise.

Youngs Literal Translation

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech -- they are thy merchants, For persons of men, and vessels of brass, They have given out thy merchandise.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יון 
Yavan 
Usage: 11

תּבל תּוּבל 
Tuwbal 
Usage: 8

and Meshech
משׁך 
meshek 
Usage: 9

רכל 
Rakal 
Usage: 17

נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

the persons
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

of men
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

and vessels
כּלי 
K@liy 
Usage: 325

of brass
נחשׁת 
N@chosheth 
Usage: 140

Context Readings

A Lament For Doomed Tyre

12 Tarshish dealt with thee by reason of the abundance of all substance; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they furnished thy markets. 13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers: they bartered with thee the persons of men, and vessels of bronze. 14 They of the house of Togarmah furnished thy markets with horses, and horsemen, and mules.


Cross References

Genesis 10:2

The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

Isaiah 66:19

And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow; to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory: and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

1 Chronicles 1:5

The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

Ezekiel 39:1

And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal;

Revelation 18:13

and cinnamon, and amomum, and incense, and unguent, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies, and souls of men.

Ezekiel 32:26

There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude, their graves round about them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

Joel 3:3

and they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it.

Genesis 10:4

And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

1 Chronicles 1:7

And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim.

Ezekiel 27:19

Vedan and Javan of Uzal traded in thy markets: wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were in thy traffic.

Ezekiel 38:2-3

Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

Daniel 8:21

And the rough goat is the king of Greece; and the great horn that was between his eyes is the first king.

Daniel 10:20

And he said, Knowest thou wherefore I am come unto thee? And now I return to fight with the prince of Persia; and when I go forth, behold, the prince of Greece shall come.

Daniel 11:2

And now will I declare unto thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall enrich himself with great riches more than all; and when he hath become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.

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