Japheth
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it] upon both
their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness
of their father; and their faces [were] backward, and they saw
not their father's nakedness....
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And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham,
and Japheth....
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(Hebrew יפת, Yafet, Greek Ἰάφεθ, Iapheth, Latin Iafeth or
Iapetus, Turk Yafes, Arabic يافث) is one of the sons of Noah
in the Hebrew Bible. In Arabic citations, his name is normally
given as Yafeth bin Nuh (Japheth son of Noah). Japheth is
often regarded as the youngest son, though some traditions
regard him as the eldest. They are listed in t...
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In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and
Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three
wives of his sons with them, into the ark;...
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ja'-feth (yepheth; yapheth; Iapheth):
1. Etymologies of Japheth:
This name, in Gen 9:27, seems to be explained by the phrase
"may God make wide (yapht, the American Standard Revised
Version "enlarge") for Japheth," where yapht and Japheth are
represented by the same consonants, but with different
vowel-points. The root of yapht is pathach, "to ...
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-Son of Noah
Ge 5:32; 6:10; 9:18; 10:21
-His life preserved at the time of the great flood
Ge 7:13; 9:18
-Prudence of, on the occasion of Noah's drunkenness
Ge 9:23,27
-Descendants of
Ge 10:2-5; 1Ch 1:5-7...
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(enlargement), one of the three sons of Noah. The descendants
of Japheth occupied the "isles of the Gentiles," Ge 10:5 --
i.e. the coast lands of the Mediterranean Sea in Europe and
Asia Minor-- whence they spread northward over the whole
continent of Europe and a considerable portion of Asia....
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wide spreading: "God shall enlarge Japheth" (Heb. Yaphat
Elohim
le-Yephet, Gen. 9:27. Some, however, derive the name
from
_yaphah_, "to be beautiful;" hence white), one of
the sons of
Noah, mentioned last in order (Gen. 5:32; 6:10;
7:13), perhaps
first by birth (10:21; comp. 9:24). He and his wife
were two of
the eight saved in the ark (1...
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