Japheth
יֶ֫פֶתStrong’s H3315yephet (ye-phet)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yephet is the Hebrew word usually translated “japheth”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.5.32
How it's translated
- japheth 6
- and japheth 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 9
- 1 Chronicles 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
יֶ֫פֶת yephet · Japheth
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.5.32; son of: Noah (H5146); brother of: Shem (H8035) and Ham (H2526); father of: Gomer (H1586), Magog (H4031), Madai (H4074), Javan (H3120), Tubal (H8422), Meshech (H4902) and Tiras (H8494) § Japheth = "opened" the 3rd son of Noah whose descendants after the flood settled on the coastal lands of the Mediterranean spreading north into Europe and parts of Asia
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.