"Khazars, and Slavs. Some traditions narrated that 36 languages of the world could be traced back to Japheth. Japheth Japheth (, ""Yefet""; """"; ), is one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis, where he plays a role in the story of Noah's drunkenness and the curse of Ham, and subsequently in the Table of Nations as the ancestor of the peoples of the Aegean, Anatolia, and elsewhere. In medieval and early modern European tradition he was considered to be the progenitor of European and, later, East Asian peoples. The meaning of the name Yafet/Yefet (יָפֶת/יֶפֶת)"
"Aram, son of Shem Aram ( ""Aram"") is a son of Shem, according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 of the Hebrew Bible, and the father of Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash or Meshech. The Book of Chronicles lists Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech as descendants of Shem, although without stating explicitly that Aram is the father of the other four. Aram is usually regarded as being the eponymous ancestor of the Aramaean people of Northern Mesopotamia and Syria. The name Aram (, ""Aram"") means etymologically ""height, high region"", according to Wilhelm Gesenius and ""the highland"" according"
"Bible (Hebrew: כוש), son of Ham (Genesis 10:6). Ham had four sons named: Cush, Put, Canaan and Mizraim (Hebrew name for Egypt). According to the Bible, Nimrod, a son of Cush, was the founder and king of Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh, in Shinar (Gen 10:10). The Bible also makes reference to someone named Cush who is a Benjamite (Psalms 7:1, KJV). Some modern scholars, such as Friedrich Delitzsch, have suggested that the biblical Cush might be linked to the Kassites of the Zagros Mountains (modern Iran). Mentuhotep II, the 21st century BC founder of the Middle Kingdom, is recorded"
"Gether According to the Table of Nations in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, Gether ( ""Ḡeṯer""; ""Aather"" in Arabic) was the third son of Aram, son of Shem. He appears only twice in the Hebrew Bible, and both times is only mentioned in passing in genealogical lists. In the Table of Nations (Genesis 10:23), he is identified as a son of Aram, while in 1 Chronicles 1:17, he is listed among the sons of Shem. In Arabic traditions, he is sometimes considered the father of Thamud, whose brother the Qur'an calls Salih. According to the first-century Jewish"
"on his death (the descendants of Shem and Ham respectively correspond to the other two, those of the Ptolemies and Seleucids). As the point of the ""blessing of Japheth"" seems to be that Japheth (a Greek-descended people) and Shem (the Israelites) would rule jointly over Canaan (Palestine). From the 19th century until the late 20th century it was usual to see Japheth as a reference to the Philistines, who shared dominion over Canaan during the pre-monarchic and early monarchic period of Israel's history. This view accorded with earlier understanding of the origin of the Book of Genesis, which was seen"
"Hazarmaveth Hazarmaveth (, tr. Ḥăṣarmāweṯ; ) is the third of thirteen sons of Joktan, who was a son of Eber, son of Shem in the table of the Sons of Noah in Genesis chapter 10 and 1 Chronicles chapter 1 in the Bible. This ""Table of Nations"" lists purported founders of neighboring ethnic groups or ""nations"". Genesis 10:26 """"...And Joktan hath begotten Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah..."""" Hazarmaveth, also transcribed ""Hazarmaueth"", means ""dwelling of death"" (Hitchcock's Bible Dictionary) and is composed of two parts in Hebrew: ""hazar/ḥaṣar"" (""dwelling"" or ""court"") and ""maveth/mawet"" (""death""). (There are alternative systems for"
"as having been composed in stages beginning with the time of Solomon, when the Philistines still existed (they vanish from history after the Babylonian conquest of Canaan). However, Genesis 10:14 identifies their ancestor as Ham rather than Japheth. For those who take the genealogies of Genesis to be historically accurate, Japheth is commonly believed to be the father of Europeans. The link between Japheth and the Europeans stems from Genesis 10:5, which states: According to that book, Japheth and his two brothers formed the three major races: William Shakespeare's play ""Henry IV, Part II"" contains a wry comment about people"
"always named first, being the most important of the three brothers. He was the ancestor of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; he was also a priest, a prophet, and one of the eight righteous mentioned twice in Genesis xi 10; they were allotted a portion both in this world and in the world to come. Shem is styled ""the great one"" According to Genesis R. xxx. 6, it was Shem who offered the sacrifices on the altar after Noah came out of the ark, because Noah, having been crippled by a lion, was unfit for the priestly office. Noah gave the"
"Terah Terah or Térach (, ""Téraḥ"", ""Ibex, wild goat"", or ""Wanderer; loiterer"") is a biblical figure in the Book of Genesis, son of Nahor, son of Serug and father of the Patriarch Abraham, all descendants of Shem's son Arpachshad. Terah is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (, and ) and New Testament. Most of what is told about Terah is recorded in . Terah's father was Nahor, son of Serug, descendants of Shem. They and many of their ancestors were polytheistic. Terah had three sons: Abram (better known by his later name Abraham), Haran, and Nahor II. His daughter Sarai,"
"10:21 refers to relative ages of Shem and his brother Japheth, but with sufficient ambiguity to have yielded different English translations. The verse is translated in the King James Version as: ""Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born."" However, the New American Standard Bible gives: ""Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children were born"". According to Genesis 10:22-31 (""Jewish Publication Society Translation"" of 1917): Genesis 11:10 records that Shem was 100 years old"
"Cush (Bible) Cush or Kush ( , ""Kush"") was, according to the Bible, the eldest son of Ham, a son of Noah. He was the brother of Canaan (land of Canaan), Mizraim (Egypt) and Phut (land of Libya), and the father of the Biblical Nimrod mentioned in the ""Table of Nations"" in the Genesis 10:6 and I Chronicles 1:8. Cush is traditionally considered the eponymous ancestor of the people of the ""land of Cush,"" an ancient territory that is believed to have been located on either side or both sides of the Red Sea. As such, ""Cush"" is alternately identified"
"descendants were the maritime nations. (10:2–5) Ham’s son Cush had a son named Nimrod, who became the first man of might on earth, a mighty hunter, king in Babylon and the land of Shinar. (10:6–10) From there Asshur went and built Nineveh. (10:11–12) Canaan’s descendants Sidon, Heth, the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites spread out from Sidon as far as Gerar, near Gaza, and as far as Sodom and Gomorrah. (10:15–19) Among Shem’s descendants was Eber. (10:21) These genealogies differ structurally from those set out in Genesis"
"at the birth of Arphaxad, two years after the flood; and that he lived for another 500 years after this, making his age at death 600 years. Excerpts from Genesis 11:10-27— (""Jewish Publication Society"" translation of 1917): According to Jesus is a descendant of Shem. The 1st-century historian Flavius Josephus, among many others, recounted the tradition that these five sons were the progenitors of the nations of Elam, Assyria, Chaldea, Lydia, and Levantine, respectively. According to some Jewish traditions (e.g., B. Talmud Nedarim 32b; Genesis Rabbah 46:7; Genesis Rabbah 56:10; Leviticus Rabbah 25:6; Numbers Rabbah 4:8.), Shem is believed to"
"Ham born in the year 1209 A.M. — two years after Shem, three before Japheth, and 99 before the flood. It gives the name of his wife who also survived the flood as ""Na'eltama'uk"". After his youngest son Canaan was cursed in 1321 A.M., he left Mount Ararat and built a city named for his wife on the south side of the mountain. In 1569 A.M., he received a third division of the earth along with his two brothers for his inheritance: everything west of the Nile River, and to the south of Gadir. In 1639 A.M. when the nations"
"the division of mankind into three groups based on the three sons of Noah, viz. Shem, Ham and Japheth: This division in Rabbi Eliezer and other rabbinical texts is received by Georgius Hornius (1666). In Hornius' scheme, the Japhetites (identified as Scythians and Celts) are ""white"" (""albos""), the Aethiopians and Chamae are ""black"" (""nigros""), and the Indians and Semites are ""yellow"" (""flavos""), while the Jews, following ""Mishnah Sanhedrin"", are exempt from the classification being neither black nor white but ""light brown"" (""buxus"", the color of boxwood). François Bernier in a short article published anonymously in 1684 moves away from the"
"that the lost tribes have been completely assimilated by and are unidentifiable in the nations of the world and hence could never have returned from their deportation by and into Assyria. Opposition also arises simply when Israelites are identified with people more commonly associated with Japheth, one of Noah's three sons. Some Two House advocates won't deny some aspect of this argument, taking into account a prophetic verse: Genesis 9:27a ""God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem"" (RSV). (Shem was another son of Noah, but also the ancestor of the Hebrews, Arabs, and many other"
"""Targum"" that is similar to ""Jubilees"", although apparently switching the names of Shem's and Ham's wives. He wrote: ""The names of the wives of the sons of Noah are these: the name of the wife of Sem, Nahalath Mahnuk; and the name of the wife of Cham, Zedkat Nabu; and the name of the wife of Japheth, Arathka"". He also recounts a quaint legend concerning the wife of Ham: God having instructed Noah to destroy the first person who announced that the deluge was beginning, Ham's wife at that moment was baking bread, when water suddenly rushed forth from the"
"Biblical Elam Elam (; ""‘Êlām"") in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 10:22, Ezra 4:9;) is said to be one of the sons of Shem, the son of Noah. It is also used (as in Akkadian), for the ancient country of Elam in what is now southern Iran, whose people the Hebrews believed to be the offspring of Elam, son of Shem (Genesis 10:22). This implies that the Elamites were considered Semites by the Hebrews. Their language was not one of the Semitic languages, but is considered a linguistic isolate. Elam (the nation) is also mentioned in Genesis 14, describing an ancient"
"listed by name in chapter 10 of Genesis (LXX) provides 15 names for Japheth's descendants, 30 for Ham's, and 27 for Shem's, these figures became established as the 72 languages resulting from the confusion at Babel — although the exact listing of these languages changed over time. (The LXX Bible has two additional names, Elisa and Cainan, not found in the Masoretic text of this chapter, so early rabbinic traditions, such as the ""Mishna"", speak instead of ""70 languages"".) Some of the earliest sources for 72 (sometimes 73) languages are the 2nd-century Christian writers Clement of Alexandria (""Stromata"" I, 21)"
"Arpachshad Arpachshad, alternatively spelled Arphaxad or Arphacsad, is one of the postdiluvian men in the Shem-Terah genealogy. According to the Book of Genesis he was one of the five sons of Shem (the son of Noah). He is the twelfth name of the Genesis genealogy that traces Abrahams ancestry from Adam to Terah. Beginning with Adam, nine antediluvian names are given that predate Noah and the Flood, and nine postdiluvian, beginning with Noah's eldest son Shem and ending with Terah. Arpachshad's brothers were Elam, Asshur, Lud and Aram. Arpachshad's son is called Shelah, except in the Septuagint, where his son"
"Izhar According to the Torah, Izhar () was the father of Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri, and was a son of Kohath and grandson of Levi, consequently being the brother of Amram and uncle of Aaron, Miriam, and Moses. No further details of his life are given by the Bible, and according to some biblical scholars the genealogy for Levi's descendants is actually an aetiological myth, reflecting popular perception of the connections between different Levite factions. Despite twice listing Izhar as being among the sons of Kohath, the Book of Chronicles subsequently goes on to state, only a few verses later,"
"priestly garments, which he had inherited from Adam, to Shem. Shem is extolled by the Rabbis for his filial devotion in covering his father's nakedness. Although his brother Japheth helped in this act, Shem suggested and began it; his brother did not arrive on the scene until Shem was already on his way with the garment. Noah, in blessing these two sons said, ""blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem"", giving special significance to Shem because Shem would be the forefather of the Jewish people. Melchizedek occupied an important place in ancient Judaism. In one of the Dead Sea"
"servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. The objective of the story may have been to justify the subject status of the Canaanites, the descendants of Ham, to the Israelites, the descendants of Shem. The narrative of the curse is replete with difficulties: It is uncertain what the precise nature of Ham's offense is. Verse 22 has been a subject of"
"extolled the glorious past of the Swedish kingdom. In particular, the sons used the (partly fictitious) king-list which began with Magog, grandson of Noah. As a consequence, Eric XIV and Charles IX adopted much higher regnal numbers than warranted by the historical sources. A Swedish translation was published by Ericus Benedicti Schroderus in 1620. A modern Swedish version, translated by Kurt Johannesson and with comments by Johannesson and Hans Helander, was published in 2018 by Michaelisgillet and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. Noah sets up his three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth to govern Asia, Africa,"
"Ptah In Egyptian mythology, Ptah (; , probably vocalized as ""Pitaḥ"" in ancient Egyptian) is the demiurge of Memphis, god of craftsmen and architects. In the triad of Memphis, he is the husband of Sekhmet and the father of Nefertum. He was also regarded as the father of the sage Imhotep. Ptah is an Egyptian deity and considered the demiurge who existed before all other things and, by his will, ""thought"" the world into existence. It was first conceived by Thought, and realized by the Word: ""Ptah conceives the world by the thought of his heart and gives life through"
"identify the prophet Hud as Eber's son. Eber Eber (, ISO 259-3 ""ʕeber"", Standard Hebrew ""Éver"", Tiberian Hebrew ""ʻĒḇer"", Arabic ""ʿĀbir"") is an ancestor of the Israelites and the Ishmaelites according to the ""Table of Nations"" in and . Eber was a great-grandson of Noah's son Shem and the father of Peleg born when Eber was 34 years old, and of Joktan. He was the son of Shelah a distant ancestor of Abraham. According to the Hebrew Bible, Eber died at the age of 464 () when Jacob was 79. In the Septuagint, Eber's (῞Εβερ) father is called Sala (Σαλά)."
"Gomer Gomer is the name of two people in the Hebrew Bible: Gomer (גֹּמֶר, 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). Gomer was also the wife of the prophet Hosea, and the daughter of Diblaim: mentioned in the Book of Hosea. Hosea 1:2 refers to her alternatively as a ""promiscuous woman"" (NIV), a ""harlot"" (NASB), and a ""whore"" (KJV) but Hosea is told to marry her according to Divine"
"according to the ""Book of Aksum"", which Bruce asserts was revered throughout Abyssinia equally with the ""Kebra Nagast"". Scholars like Johann Michaelis and Rosenmuller have pointed out that the name ""Cush"" was applied to tracts of country on both sides of the Red Sea, in the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen) and Northeast Africa. Cush (Bible) Cush or Kush ( , ""Kush"") was, according to the Bible, the eldest son of Ham, a son of Noah. He was the brother of Canaan (land of Canaan), Mizraim (Egypt) and Phut (land of Libya), and the father of the Biblical Nimrod mentioned in the"
"that the slave-girl was his mother, while she was his retainer"". According to the Table of Nations one of the sons of Saam was Arphaxad or Arpachshad also known as Zo’ul Had Nabi Allah. The second generation of Shem was Sar Qus the son of Arphaxad (or Arfakhshad). Through his descendents her lineage is further traced to (i) Ku’Mars (ii) Siya Mak (iii) Hoshang (iv) Sayo Mars who was the father of (v) King Jamshed. The period of King Jamshed is traditionally assigned to be near-contemporaneous with the life of the Prophet Ibrahim/Abraham, making Abraham a sixth cousin of Jamshed"
"Phut Phut or Put ( ""pûṭ""; Septuagint Greek ""Phoud"") is the third son of Ham (one of the sons of Noah), in the biblical Table of Nations (Genesis 10:6; cf. 1 Chronicles 1:8). The name Put (or Phut) is also used in the Bible for the people or nation said to be descended from him, usually placed in Ancient Libya, but connections are sometimes proposed with the Land of Punt known from Ancient Egyptian annals. Josephus writes: ""Phut also was the founder of Libya, and called the inhabitants Phutites (""Phoutes""), from himself: there is also a river in the country"
"Nimshi Namshi (; Latin and Douay-Rheims: Namsi) was the grandfather of Jehu, father of a man named Jehoshaphat (not to be confused with Jehoshaphat the son of Asa and a king of Judah), and a character in the Hebrew Bible. Although he is sometimes referred to as the ""father"" of Jehu in the Hebrew Bible, this is usually regarded by scholars to mean that this means ""antecedent"" of father, not that Jehu was the son of Nimshi. The word Nimshi (נִמְשִׁי) comes from the Hebrew language circa 600 B.C., and literally translates to mean """"one who rescues those in danger""""."
"Eber Eber (, ISO 259-3 ""ʕeber"", Standard Hebrew ""Éver"", Tiberian Hebrew ""ʻĒḇer"", Arabic ""ʿĀbir"") is an ancestor of the Israelites and the Ishmaelites according to the ""Table of Nations"" in and . Eber was a great-grandson of Noah's son Shem and the father of Peleg born when Eber was 34 years old, and of Joktan. He was the son of Shelah a distant ancestor of Abraham. According to the Hebrew Bible, Eber died at the age of 464 () when Jacob was 79. In the Septuagint, Eber's (῞Εβερ) father is called Sala (Σαλά). His son is called Phaleg (Φαλέγ), born"
"in Babylon and the land of Shinar. From there Asshur went and built Nineveh. Ham's son Mizraim had sons from whom came the Philistines and Caphtorim. A closed portion (, ""setumah"") ends here. In the continuation of the reading, Canaan's descendants — Sidon, Heth, the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites — spread out from Sidon as far as Gerar, near Gaza, and as far as Sodom and Gomorrah. Another closed portion (, ""setumah"") ends here. The continuation of the reading set forth Shem's descendants, among whom was"