"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)"
"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"
"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"
"Ham (son of Noah) Ham, according to the Table of Nations in the Book of Genesis, was a son of Noah and the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan. Ham's descendants are interpreted by Flavius Josephus and others as having populated Africa and adjoining parts of Asia. The Bible refers to Egypt as ""the land of Ham"" in Psalm 78:51; 105:23,27; 106:22; 1 Chronicles 4:40. Since the 17th century a number of suggestions have been made that relate the name ""Ham"" to a Hebrew word for ""burnt"", ""black"" or ""hot"", to the Egyptian word ""ḥm"" for ""servant"" or the"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"""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"
"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"
"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"
"when Hafiz Sham-us-Din of Gulyana, Gujrat claimed Ham had revealed this to him in a dream. A plaque on the tomb since erected over the 78 foot long grave site states that Ham, locally revered as a prophet, was buried there after living 536 years. Ham (son of Noah) Ham, according to the Table of Nations in the Book of Genesis, was a son of Noah and the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan. Ham's descendants are interpreted by Flavius Josephus and others as having populated Africa and adjoining parts of Asia. The Bible refers to Egypt as ""the"
"Slavs. It is written in ""Genesis"": ""The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. and the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. By these were the Isles of the Gentile divided in their lands everyone after his tongue, after their families, in their nations."" (Gen 10:2-5) In the Bible, Japheth is ascribed seven sons and seven named grandsons: The intended ethnic identity of these 'descendants of Japheth' is not certain; however, over history, they have been identified by"
"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)"
"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"
"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"
"a long but sporadic civil war between several Yemenite dynasties claiming kingship, resulting in the rise of the late Himyarite Kingdom. The two names Sheba (spelled in Hebrew with ""shin"") and Seba (spelled with ""samekh"") are mentioned several times in the Bible with different genealogy. For instance, in the Generations of Noah Seba, along with Dedan, is listed as a descendant of Noah's son Ham (as sons of Raamah, son of Cush). Later on in the Book of Genesis, Sheba and Dedan are listed as names of sons of Jokshan, son of Abraham. Another Sheba is listed in the Table"
"assumed to be somewhere in the region of Yemen; Sheba was a son of Raamah, and his descendants are often held to be included among the Sabaeans. Dedan, son of Raamah. Apparently a region of the Medina Province of Saudi Arabia. However, there was also an Israelite city called ""Ramah"", somewhat closer to Tyre. Raamah Raamah or Rama is a name found in the Bible (Hebrew: רעמה, Ra‛mâh), means ""lofty"" or ""exalted"" and also may mean ""thunder"". The name is first mentioned as the fourth son of Cush, who is the son of Ham, who is the son of Noah"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"language, nothing that they sought would be out of their reach. God went down and confounded their speech, so that they could not understand each another, and scattered them over the face of the earth, and they stopped building the city. Thus the city was called Babel. The fourth open portion (, ""petuchah"") ends here. The continuation of the reading sets forth the descendants of Shem. Eight closed portion (, ""setumah"") divisions separate each generation. As the reading continues, eight generations after Shem, Terah had three sons: Abram (who would become Abraham), Nahor, and Haran. Haran had a son Lot"
"who claim to be related to royal families. Prince Hal notes of such people, In the Bible, Japheth is ascribed seven sons: Gomer, Magog, Tiras, Javan, Meshech, Tubal, and Madai. According to Josephus (""Antiquities of the Jews"" I.6): Josephus subsequently detailed the nations supposed to have descended from the seven sons of Japheth. The ""Book of Jasher"", published by Talmudic rabbis in the 17th century, provides some new names for Japheth's grandchildren not found in the Bible, and provided a much more detailed genealogy (see Japhetic). In the seventh century, Isidore of Seville published his noted history, in which he"
"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"
"the Book of Genesis, after Noah became drunk and Ham dishonored his father, upon awakening Noah pronounced a curse on Ham's youngest son, Canaan, stating that his offspring would be the ""servants of servants"". Of Ham's four sons, Canaan fathered the Canaanites, while Mizraim fathered the Egyptians, Cush the Cushites, and Phut the Libyans. During the Middle Ages, believing Jews, Christians, and Muslims incorrectly considered Ham to be the ancestor of all Africans. Noah's curse on Canaan as described in Genesis began to be misinterpreted by some scholars in Europe as having caused visible racial characteristics in all of Ham's"
"Joktan Joktan was the second of the two sons of Eber (Gen. 10:25; 1 Chr. 1:19) mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. In the Book of Genesis 10:25 it reads: ""And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan."" Joktan's sons in the order provided in , were Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. In Pseudo-Philo's account (ca. 70), Joktan was first made prince over the children of Shem, just as Nimrod and Phenech were"
"within the Table is difficult to discern: it purports to describe all humankind, but in reality restricts itself to the Egyptian lands of the south, the Mesopotamian lands, and Anatolia/Asia Minor and the Ionian Greeks, and in addition, the ""sons of Noah"" are not organised by geography, language family or ethnic groups within these regions. The Table contains several difficulties: for example, the names Sheba and Havilah are listed twice, first as descendants of Cush the son of Ham (verse 7), and then as sons of Joktan, the great-grandsons of Shem, and while the Cushites are North African in verses"
"A son was called Ashbel, because God sent Joseph into captivity (""shevao el""). A son was called Gera, because Joseph dwelt (""gar"") in a strange land. A son was called Naaman, because Joseph was especially beloved (""na'im""). Sons were called Ehi and Rosh, because Joseph was to Benjamin ""my brother"" (""achi"") and chief (""rosh""). Sons were called Muppim and Huppim, because Benjamin said that Joseph did not see Benjamin's marriage-canopy (""chuppah""). A son was called Ard, because Joseph descended (""yarad"") among the peoples. Others explain that he was called Ard, because Joseph's face was like a rose (""vered""). Rabbi Levi"
"transliterating Hebrew into Latin letters.) In the Ethiopic version, the name is ""Hasremot"". Scholars of Semitic languages have related the name to the ancient region of Hadramaut in the modern Southern Arabian nation of Yemen, and indeed, one of the other sons of Joktan is Sheba, the name of an ancient Southern Arabian kingdom. 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"
"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"
"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"
"Meshech In the Bible, Meshech or Mosoch ( ""Mešeḵ"" ""price"" or ""precious"") is named as a son of Japheth in Genesis 10:2 and 1 Chronicles 1:5. Another Meshech is named as a son of Shem in 1 Chronicles 1:17 (corresponding to the form ""Mash"" in Genesis 10). Meshech is named with Tubal (and Rosh, in certain translations) as principalities of ""Gog, prince of Magog"" in Ezekiel 38:2 and 39:1, and is considered a Japhetite tribe, identified by Flavius Josephus with the Cappadocian ""Mosocheni"" (Mushki, also associated with Phrygians or Bryges) and their capital Mazaca. In Hippolytus of Rome's chronicle (234"