Japheth יֶ֫פֶת

Japheth was one of Noah's three sons and the ancestor of the Indo-European peoples.

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Where Japheth appears

Genesis (9), 1 Chronicles (2)

Key verses

• Genesis 5:32 first mention — And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
• Genesis 6:10 — And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
• Genesis 7:13 — In 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 9:18 — And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
• Genesis 9:23 — And 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 9:27 — God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
• Genesis 10:1 — Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
• Genesis 10:2 — The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
• Genesis 10:21 — Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
• 1 Chronicles 1:4 — Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
• 1 Chronicles 1:5 — The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Verse text: King James Version.