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Japheth and Hebrew
" The differing interpretations depend on whether the Hebrew word ha-gadol (" the elder ") is taken as grammatically referring to Japheth, or Shem.
Gomer was the son of Japheth in the Hebrew Bible.
Madai (, ; Greek: Μηδος, ) is a son of Japheth and one of the 16 grandsons of Noah in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible.
Magog ( Hebrew מגוג, Greek Μαγωγ ) is the second of the seven sons of Japheth mentioned in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10.
Togarmah ( Hebrew: ת ּ וגרמה / Togarmah ; Armenian: Թորգոմ / T ’ orgom ; Georgian: თარგამოს / T ’ argamos ; also Togarma ) third son of Gomer, and grandson of Japheth, brother of Ashkenaz and Riphat ().
Javan ( Hebrew י ָ ו ָ ן, Standard Hebrew Yavan, Tiberian Hebrew Yāwān ) was the fourth son of Noah's son Japheth according to the " Table of Nations " ( Genesis chapter 10 ) in the Hebrew Bible.
Tiras was, according to and Chronicles 1, the last-named son of Japheth who is otherwise unmentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
Kittim ( Hebrew: כ ִּ ת ִּ ים, alternately transliterated as Chittim or Cethim ) in the genealogy of Genesis 10 in the Hebrew Bible, is the son of Javan, the grandson of Japheth, and Noah's great-grandson.
Gomer ( ג ֹּ מ ֶ ר, Standard Hebrew Gómer, Tiberian Hebrew Gōmer, ) was the eldest son of Japheth ( and of the Japhetic line ), and father of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah, according to the " Table of Nations " in the Hebrew Bible, ( Genesis 10 ).

Japheth and Yafet
Moses of Kalankatuyk and other ancient sources explain Arran or Arhan as the name of the legendary founder of Caucasian Albania ( Aghvan ) or even as the Iranic tribe known as Alans ( Alani ), who in some versions was son of Noah's son Yafet ( Japheth ).
According to some legends and ancient sources, such as Movses Kagankatvatsi, ( Albanian ) Arran or Arhan was the name of the legendary founder of Caucasian Albania, who in some versions was son of Noah's son Yafet ( Japheth ) and also, possibly the eponym of the ancient Caucasian Albanians ( Aghvan ), and / or the Iranic tribe known as Alans ( Alani ).

Japheth and ;
Japheth was identified by some scholars with figures from other mythologies, including Iapetus, the Greek Titan ; the Indian figures Dyaus Pitar and Pra-Japati, and the Roman Iu-Pater or " Father Jove ", which became Jupiter.
Note: the Greek Septuagint ( LXX ) of Genesis includes an additional son of Japheth, " Elisa ", in between Javan and Tubal ; however, as this name is found in no other ancient source, nor in I Chronicles, he is almost universally agreed to be a duplicate of Elisha, son of Javan.
Japheth is traditionally seen as the ancestor of Europeans, as well as some more eastern nations ; thus Japhetic has been used as a synonym for Caucasians.
For example, the only use of the word in Genesis is in chapter 10, verse 5, referring to the peopling of the world by descendants of Japheth, " By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands ; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
The idea that Gog and Magog were connected with the Goths was longstanding ; in the mid-16th century, Archbishop of Uppsala Johannes Magnus traced the royal family of Sweden back to Magog son of Japheth, ( Magnus identified two of Magog's sons as Suenno, progenitor of the Swedes, and Gethar ( also known as Gog or Gogus ), ancestor of the Goths ).
One account, the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, states that " In the days of Phalek ( Peleg ), the earth was divided a second time among the three sons of Noah ; Shem, Ham and Japheth " — it having been divided once previously among the three sons by Noah himself.
< sup > 23 </ sup > 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.
< sup > 27 </ sup > God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; and Canaan shall be his servant .— Authorized King James Version </ font >
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.
From Shem, Ham and Japheth the patriarchs inherited the absolute power which they exercised over their families and servants ; and it is from these patriarchs that all kings and governors ( whether a single monarch or a governing assembly ) derive their authority, which is therefore absolute, and founded upon divine right.
As a consequence certain names became characteristic of certain districts: Japheth and Caleb in Greece, and hence among the Karaites ; Kalonymus in south Italy ; Sheshet and Joab in Rome ; Sinai and Pesaḥ in Germany.
The intended ethnic identity of these ' descendants of Japheth ' is not certain ; however, over history, they have been identified by Biblical scholars with various historical nations who were deemed to be descendants of Japheth and his sons — a practice dating back at least to the classical encounters of Jew with Hellene, for example in Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews, I. VI. 122 ( Whiston ).
< BR />< sup > 23 </ sup > 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.
< BR />< sup > 27 </ sup > God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; and Canaan shall be his servant.
The treatment of Japheth in verses 26 – 27 raises the questions: Why is YHWH named as the God of Shem, but not of Japheth ; what does it mean that God will " enlarge " Japheth ; and why will Japheth " dwell in the tents of " Shem "?

Japheth and Greek
Additionally but less surely Japheth may be related linguistically to the Greek mythological figure Iapetus.
The Greek Septuagint of Genesis 10 lists Elisa not only as the son of Javan, but also among the sons of Japheth, possibly a copyist's error.

Japheth and Iafeth
This T and O map, which abstracts that society's known world to a cross inscribed within an orb, remakes geography in the service of Christian iconography and identifies the three known continents as populated by descendants of Shem ( Sem ), Ham ( Cham ) and Japheth ( Iafeth )
It shows the continents as domains of the sons of Noah: Sem ( Shem ), Iafeth ( Japheth ) and Cham ( Ham, son of Noah | Ham ).

Japheth and Iapetus
Iapetus has ( for example, by Robert Graves ) been equated with Japheth ( י ֶ פ ֶ ת ), the son of Noah, based on the similarity of their names and on old Jewish traditions, that held Japheth as the ancestor of the Greeks, the Slavs, the Italics, the Teutons, the Dravidians etc.

Japheth and Arabic
In Arabic citations, his name is normally given as Yafeth bin Nuh ( Japheth son of Noah ).

Japheth and is
Japheth is often regarded as the youngest son, though some traditions regard him as the eldest.
The verse is translated in the KJV as follows, " Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born ".
For those who take the genealogies of Genesis to be historically accurate, Japheth is commonly believed to be the father of the Europeans.
* Japheth is the father of the Japhetic race
In the Bible, Japheth is ascribed seven sons: Gomer, Magog, Tiras, Javan, Meshech, Tubal, and Madai.
Japheth is not mentioned by name in the Qur ' an but is referred to indirectly in the narrative of Noah ( VII: 64, X: 73, XI: 40, XXIII: 27, XXVI: 119 ).
Japheth is a major character in the Madeleine L ' Engle novel Many Waters ( 1986, ISBN 0 374 34796 4 ).
Depicted in the book as Noah's younger son, Japheth is barely into adulthood, but at Noah's instigation is already married.
Togarmah is mentioned in Genesis ( Chapter 10 verses 2 & 3 ) as a grandson of Japheth.
The verse is translated in the KJV as " Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born .".
In Shem, the elder brother of Ham and Japheth, first born son of Noah, is referred to as the father of the sons of Eber ( עבר ), which may have a similar meaning.
Caucasian itself derives in part from the assumption that the tribe of Japheth developed its distinctive racial characteristics in the Caucasus, where Mount Ararat is located.
In the Book of Jubilees, it is mentioned as being part of the border, beginning with its easternmost point up to its mouth, between the allotments of sons of Noah, that of Japheth to the north and that of Shem to the south.
The continent Asia is peopled by descendants of Sem or Shem, Africa by descendants of Ham and Europe by descendants of Japheth, the sons of Noah.
Yet another Brutus, son of Hisicion, son of Alanus the first European, also traced back across many generations to Japheth, is referred to in the Historia Britonum.
" Noah has three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, and Magog is one of the sons ( the second ) of Japheth:

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