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Japheth

Genesis1 Chronicles
When

No date

Genesis gives ages before Abraham, and readers differ on whether they are meant to be added up into dates. How the dates are worked out

Name meaning

"may he enlarge" · Hebrew

"God shall enlarge Japheth" (Genesis 9:27).

About

Son of Noah who helped cover his father with a garment and received a blessing from Noah. Genesis names his sons — including Gomer, Madai, and Javan — as ancestors of the coastland peoples.

Relationships
FatherNoahFather
BrotherShemBrother
BrotherHamBrother
Key Scripture AppearancesKJV
Genesis 5:32
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.Genesis 5:32, KJV
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.Genesis 9:23, KJV
Genesis 10:2
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.Genesis 10:2, KJV

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