Lehabim

The Lehabim are one of the Mizraite peoples named in the Table of Nations. They appear only twice in the Hebrew Bible, in two genealogical lists that read word for word identically — the descendants of Mizraim in Genesis 10 and the Chronicler's recapitulation of the same line.

Among the Sons of Mizraim

In the Genesis Table of Nations the Lehabim stand third in the run of Mizraim's begotten peoples: "And Mizraim begot Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim," (Gn 10:13). They are placed without comment between the Anamim and the Naphtuhim and inherit the Mizraite (Egyptian) descent that the verse traces from Ham's son.

In the Chronicler's Genealogy

The Chronicler's opening genealogy preserves the same line in the same order, copying the wording exactly: "And Mizraim begot Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim," (1Ch 1:11). The doubled occurrence places Lehabim into the Mizraite branch of the post-flood nations and gives no further information beyond the name and its ancestral position.