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Japheth in Wikipedia

(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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Japheth Scripture - Genesis 9:23

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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Japheth Scripture - Genesis 5:32

And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth....

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Japheth Scripture - Genesis 7:13

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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Japheth in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

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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Japheth in Naves Topical Bible

-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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Japheth in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(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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Japhet in Hitchcock's Bible Names

enlarged; fair; persuading...

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Japheth in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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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