Tiras

Tiras Scripture - Genesis 10:2

The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras....

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Tiras Scripture - 1 Chronicles 1:5

The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras....

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Tiras in Wikipedia

Tiras was, according to Genesis 10 and Chronicles 1, the last-named son of Japheth who is otherwise unmentioned in the Hebrew Bible. According to the Book of Jubilees, the inheritance of Tiras consisted of four large islands in the ocean. Some scholars have speculated his descendants to have been among the components of the Sea Peoples known t...

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Tiras in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ti'-ras (tirac; Theiras, Lucian Thiras): A son of Japheth (Gen 10:2 (P); 1 Ch 1:5). Not mentioned elsewhere; this name was almost unanimously taken by the ancient commentators (so Josephus, Ant, I, vi, 1) to be the same as that of the Thracians (Thrakes); but the removal of the nominative ending -s does away with this surface resemblance. Tuch...

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Tiras in Naves Topical Bible

-Son of Japheth Ge 10:2; 1Ch 1:5...

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Tiras in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(desire), the youngest son of Japheth, Ge 10:2 usually identified with the Thracians, as presenting the closest verbal approximation to the name....

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Tiras in Easton's Bible Dictionary

the youngest of the sons of Japheth (Gen. 10:2; 1 Chr. 1:5)....

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Tiras in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Genesis 10:2. Josephus (Ant. 1:6, section 1) identifies his descendants with the Thracians, including the Getae (from whence came the Goths) and Dacians. Tuch derives the Tyrsenians from Tiras. (See ROSH.) Thracian tribes occupied most of northern and central Asia Minor originally. The Bithynians were Thracians. So also the Mariandynians, Pap...

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