Strong H3315יֶ֫פֶת
Japheth
- Transliteration
- yepheth
- Pronunciation
- yeh'-feth
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person
Definition
From H6601; expansion;
{Jepheth} a son of Noah; also his posterity: - Japheth.
{Jepheth} a son of Noah; also his posterity: - Japheth.
Meaning of the name
Japheth = "opened"
Detailed definition
In the biblical story
Japheth
Son of Noah, ancestor of Indo-European peoples
Japheth was one of Noah's three sons and the ancestor of the Indo-European peoples.
In the Bible
Strong H3315 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- japheth11
First verses
- Genesis 5:32And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Genesis 6:10And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Genesis 7:13In 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;
- Genesis 9:18And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
- Genesis 9:23And 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 9:27God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
- Genesis 10:1Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
- Genesis 10:2The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
- Genesis 10:21Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
- 1 Chronicles 1:4Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- 1 Chronicles 1:5The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.