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1 Chronicles 1:39
And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and Timna was Lotan’s sister. (1 Chronicles 1:39)
Homam.
 Or Hemam (Gen. 36:22). The difference is due to the fact that in Genesis a is employed, whereas here there is a w. The two letters are so similar to each other in the Hebrew as to be easily interchanged. Thus, for obviously same reason, Obal of Gen. 10:28 appears as Ebal in v. 22 of this chapter. Variations of this type are numerous. For example, we have Zephi (v. 36) and Alian and Shephi (v. 40) for Zepho (Gen. 36:11) and Alvan and Shepo (Gen. 36:23).