Riphath

Riphath Scripture - Genesis 10:3

And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah....

Riphath Scripture - 1 Chronicles 1:6

And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah....

Riphath in Wikipedia

Riphath (ree-fath)- a crusher, Gomer's second son (Gen. 10:3, 1 Chronicles 1:6), supposed by Josephus to have been the ancestor of the Paphlagonians. Pliny calls Riphath Riphaci and mentions a group of mountains named after him, the Riphæan range. Melo calls him Riphaces, and Solinus: Piphlataci. Some Irish traditions say Riphath is the ancesto...

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Riphath in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ri'-fath (riphath): A son of Gomer, the eldest son of Japhet (Gen 10:3; 1 Ch 1:6, where Massoretic Text and the Revised Version (British and American) read DIPHATH (which see)). Josephus (Ant., I, vi, 1) identifies the Ripheans with the Paphlagonians, through whose country on the Black Sea ran the river "Rhebas" (Pliny, NH, vi.4)....

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Riphath in Naves Topical Bible

-A son of Gomer Ge 10:3; 1Ch 1:6...

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Riphath in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(spoken), the second son of Gomer. Ge 10:3 The name may be identified with the Rhipaean mountains, i.e. the Carpathian range in the northeast of Dacia....

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Riphath in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a crusher, Gomer's second son (Gen. 10:3), supposed to have been the ancestor of the Paphlagonians....

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Riphath in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Gomer's second son (Genesis 10:3). Paphlagonia (Josephus, Ant. 1:6, section 1). The Riphaean mountains in the remote N. to the E. of Tanais ("the Don"); the Carpathian range N.E. of Dacia....

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