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Strong's #3315: Yepheth (pronounced yeh'-feth)

from 6601; expansion; Jepheth, a son of Noah; also his posterity:--Japheth.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

yepheth

Japheth = "opened"

1) 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

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H6601



Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

Genesis 5:32: "Shem, Ham, and Japheth."
Genesis 6:10: "Shem, Ham, and Japheth."
Genesis 7:13: "entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's"
Genesis 9:18: "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"
Genesis 9:27: "God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be"
Genesis 10:1: "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,"
Genesis 10:21: "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,"









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