Japheth

Japheth is one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis, in which 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 Sea, Anatolia, Caucasus, Greece, and elsewhere in Eurasia. In medieval and early modern European tradition he was considered to be the progenitor of the European peoples.

Japheth

Quotes about

• May God enlarge Japheth,
  And may he dwell in the tents of Shem;
  And may Canaan be his servant.
  • Genesis 9,27 (NKJV).

• And children were born also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.
  • Genesis 10,21 (NKJV).

See also

• Noah
• Shem
• Ham

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