Genesis 10:13 - Exposition

And Mizraim begat Ludim . An African tribe, a colony of the Egyptians, like the next seven, which are " nomina non singulorum hominum sed populorum " (Aben Ezra, Michaelis, Rosenmüller, Kalisch, Murphy); probably referred to in connection with Tarshish and Put ( Isaiah 66:19 ), with Kush and Put ( Jeremiah 46:9 ), and in connection with Put ( Ezekiel 27:10 ; Ezekiel 30:5 ). Lud ( Genesis 10:22 ) was Shemitic. And Anamim . Not elsewhere mentioned; the inhabitants of the Delta (Knobel). And Lehabim . Lubim ( 2 Chronicles 12:3 ; Daniel 2:43 ; Nahum 3:9 ); Libyans ( Daniel 11:43 ); probably the Libyaus west of Egypt (Michaelis, Kalisch, Murphy). And Naphtuhim . Nephthys, near Pelusium; on the Lake Sirbenis (Bochart); the Libyan town Napata (Kalisch); the people of Middle Egypt (Knobel).