The Meaning of Genesis 10:32 Explained

Genesis 10:32

KJV: These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

YLT: These are families of the sons of Noah, by their births, in their nations, and by these have the nations been parted in the earth after the deluge.

Darby: These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. And from these came the distribution of the nations on the earth after the flood.

ASV: These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

These [are] the families  of the sons  of Noah,  after their generations,  in their nations:  and by these were the nations  divided  in the earth  after  the flood. 

What does Genesis 10:32 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Genesis 10

1  The generations of Noah
2  Japheth
6  Ham
8  Nimrod becomes the first monarch; the descendants of Canaan
21  The sons of Shem

What do the individual words in Genesis 10:32 mean?

These [were] the families of the sons of Noah according to their generations in their nations and from these were divided the nations on the earth after the flood -
אֵ֣לֶּה מִשְׁפְּחֹ֧ת בְּנֵי־ נֹ֛חַ לְתוֹלְדֹתָ֖ם בְּגוֹיֵהֶ֑ם וּמֵאֵ֜לֶּה נִפְרְד֧וּ הַגּוֹיִ֛ם בָּאָ֖רֶץ אַחַ֥ר הַמַּבּֽוּל פ

אֵ֣לֶּה  These  [were] 
Parse: Pronoun, common plural
Root: אֵהֶל 
Sense: these.
מִשְׁפְּחֹ֧ת  the  families 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct
Root: מִשְׁפָּחָה  
Sense: clan, family.
בְּנֵי־  of  the  sons 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: בֵּן 
Sense: son, grandson, child, member of a group.
נֹ֛חַ  of  Noah 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: נׄחַ  
Sense: son of Lamech, father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth; builder of the ark which saved his family from the destruction of the world which God sent on the world by the flood; became the new seminal head of the human race because his family were the only survivors of the flood.
לְתוֹלְדֹתָ֖ם  according  to  their  generations 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, feminine plural construct, third person masculine plural
Root: תֹּולֵדֹות  
Sense: descendants, results, proceedings, generations, genealogies.
בְּגוֹיֵהֶ֑ם  in  their  nations 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine plural construct, third person masculine plural
Root: גֹּוי 
Sense: nation, people.
וּמֵאֵ֜לֶּה  and  from  these 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m, Pronoun, common plural
Root: אֵהֶל 
Sense: these.
נִפְרְד֧וּ  were  divided 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: פָּרַד  
Sense: to separate, divide.
הַגּוֹיִ֛ם  the  nations 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine plural
Root: גֹּוי 
Sense: nation, people.
בָּאָ֖רֶץ  on  the  earth 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: אֶרֶץ  
Sense: land, earth.
אַחַ֥ר  after 
Parse: Adverb
Root: אַחַר 
Sense: after the following part, behind (of place), hinder, afterwards (of time).
הַמַּבּֽוּל  the  flood 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: מַבּוּל  
Sense: .
פ  - 
Parse: Punctuation