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Brother of Shem and Ham
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Japheth ( , Modern Hebrew: ; ; ; ), meaning "enlarge", is one of the sons of Noah in the Abrahamic tradition . In Arabic citations, his name is normally given as Yafeth bin Nuh ("Japheth, son of Noah"). In Biblical tradition, Japheth is considered to be ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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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According to Genesis, the descendants of the Japheth who escaped out of the Flood with Noah are the Ionians, the inhabitants of the Morea, the dwellers on the Cilician coast of Asia Minor, the Cyprians, the Dodoneans of Macedonia, the Iberians, and the Thracians.
Throughout his years at school (and as Marcus had speculated, the New Paltz school had taught the Palmer system of handwriting at that time), as well as on those special occasions when he accompanied his parents into town, Japheth would often be set on by gangs of children who made a great game out of competing to see who could most accurately imitate the boy’s tic.
But Shem and Japheth, that is to say, the circumcision and uncircumcision, or, as the apostle otherwise calls them, the Jews and Greeks, but called and justified, having somehow discovered the nakedness of their father (which signifies the Saviour’s passion), took a garment and laid it upon their backs, and entered backwards and covered their father’s nakedness, without their seeing what their reverence hid.