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Havilah

Havilah was a son of Cush, a descendant of Ham, mentioned in the Table of Nations. Mentioned in 2 verses across 2 books, first at Genesis 10:7.

Why it matters. A son of Cush, descendant of Ham.

Last reviewed
2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team

About Havilah

Havilah is mentioned in the Table of Nations in Genesis and 1 Chronicles as a son of Cush, who was a son of Ham, one of Noah's three sons. The Table of Nations is a genealogical record of the descendants of Noah's sons after the Great Flood, representing the known nations and peoples of the ancient world. No further information is provided about this Havilah in the Bible. (Gen.10.7; 1Ch.1.9).

Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.

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Family

Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.

Parents
Cush

Appears in Scripture

Named in 2 verses across 2 books. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.

  • Genesis (1 verse)

    10:7

  • 1 Chronicles (1 verse)

    1:9

Record type: Person. FaithGraph explanations on this page are editorial and are not Scripture.