Genesis 10:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 24:24
And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
Genesis 11:10-26
These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: …

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Eber Grandfather Shem

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21-32)

Two things especially are observable in this account of the posterity of Shem:— I. The description of Shem, v. 21. We have not only his name, Shem, which signifies a name, but two titles to distinguish him by:— 1. He was the father of all the children of Eber. Eber was his great grandson; but why should he be called the father of all his children, rather than of all Arphaxad’s, or Salah’s, etc.? P…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. Unto Shem--The historian introduces him with marked distinction as “the father of Eber,” the ancestor of the Hebrews.