Teks -- Genesis 10:25 (NET)

10:25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Gen 10:25 - Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided

After the flood (Gen 11:10-16) the descendants of Noah settled at pleasure and enjoyed the produce of the undivided soil. But according to divine instruction, made probably through Eber, who seems to have been distinguished for piety or a prophetic character, the earth was divided and his son's name, "Peleg," was given in memory of that event (see Deu 32:8; Act 17:26).

Clarke: Gen 10:25 - Peleg

Peleg - From פלג palag , to divide, because in his days, which is supposed to be about one hundred years after the flood, the earth was divided among the sons of Noah. Though some are of opinion that a physical division, and not a political one, is what is intended here, viz., a separation of continents and islands from the main land; the earthy parts having been united into one great continent previously to the days of Peleg. This opinion appears to me the most likely, for what is said, Gen 10:5, is spoken by way of anticipation.

Defender: Gen 10:25 - Peleg

Peleg means "division," and he was apparently given the name by Eber because of the great event that took place just before his birth. He may also have given his name to the Pelasgians.

Defender: Gen 10:25 - the earth divided

The "division" that took place was, most likely, the traumatic upheaval at Babel. A division in Gen 10:5, Gen 10:32 is mentioned, where the division is "after his tongue." Nimrod was in the same generation as Eber, and this is the only place in the Table of Nations where the meaning of a son's name is given, indicating the importance of the event it commemorated. However, it is true that two different words are used (Pelag in Gen 10:25, parad in Gen 10:5, Gen 10:32). Although the two words are essentially synonymous, this might indicate a different type of division. Many Bible teachers have suggested, therefore, that Gen 10:25 might refer to a splitting of the single post-Flood continent into the present continents of the world. They associate the modern scientific model of sea-floor spreading and continental drifting with Gen 10:25. It should be remembered, however, that the continental drift hypothesis has by no means been proved, and the verse seems to refer more directly to the division into families, countries and languages. Furthermore, even if the continents have separated from a single primeval continent, such a split more likely would have occurred in connection with the continental uplifts terminating the global deluge (Psa 104:6-9)."

TSK: Gen 10:25 - Eber // the name // Peleg // in

am 1757, bc 2247

Eber : Gen 10:21; 1Ch 1:19

the name : Gen 11:16-19; Luk 3:35, Luk 3:36

Peleg : i.e. division

in : Gen 10:32; Deu 32:8; Act 17:26

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Gen 10:25 - In his days // The earth was divided

In his days either,

1. In the time of his birth, whence he was so called. Or,

2. Afterwards in the time of life. So his father gave him this name by the Spirit of prophecy, foreseeing this great event, and the time of it; this being no unusual thing in Scripture, as we shall hereafter see, to give prophetical names to children. And thus there is a longer and more convenient space left for the peopling of the world, and ripening of things for the general dispersion and habitation of the earth.

The earth was divided first in language, and then in habitations.

Gill: Gen 10:25 - And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg // for in his days was the earth divided // and his brother's name was Joktan

And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg,.... Bochart ^k thinks, that either Peleg, or one of his posterity, in memory of him, gave the name of Phalga to a town situated on the Euphrates; though the reason of the name, as given by Arrianus, as he himself observes, was because it divided between the two Seleucias, as the reason of Peleg's name was:

for in his days was the earth divided; among the three sons of Noah, and their respective posterities; their language was divided, and that obliged them to divide and separate in bodies which understood one another; hence that age, in which was this event, was usually called by the Jews the age of division; whether this was done about the time of his birth, and so this name was given him to perpetuate the memory of it, or in some after part of his life, and so was given by a spirit of prophecy, is a question: Josephus, Jarchi, and the Jewish writers, generally go the latter way; if it was at the time of his birth, which is the sense of many, then this affair happened in the one hundred and first year after the flood, for in that year Peleg was born, as appears from Gen 11:11.

and his brother's name was Joktan, whom the Arabs call Cahtan, and claim him as their parent, at least, of their principal tribes; and say he was the first that reigned in Yaman, and put a diadem on his head ^l; and there is a city in the territory of Mecca, about seven furlongs or a mile to the south of it, and one station from the Red sea, called Baisath Jektan, the seat of Jektan ^m, which manifestly retains his name; and there are a people called Catanitae, placed by Ptolemy ⁿ in Arabia Felix.