japheth









japheth


noun

  1. a son of Noah. Gen. 5:32.

noun

  1. Old Testament the second son of Noah, traditionally regarded as the ancestor of a number of non-Semitic nations (Genesis 10:1–5)

youngest of the three sons of Noah, from Latin Japheth, from Greek Iapheth, from Hebrew Yepheth, literally “enlargement,” from causative form of the stem p-t-h “to be wide, spacious.”

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