Crossword clues for japheth
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."
Wikipedia
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 the progenitor of European, and some Asian, peoples. In medieval Europe various nations and ethnicities were given genealogies tracing back to Japheth and his descendants. Religious syncretists later adopted the euhermistic argument that Japheth's memory was distorted into mythical figures such as Iapetus and Neptune.
Japheth is one of the sons of Noah in the Bible.
Japheth may also refer to:
- Japheth Serves (born June 2016), The Captain of the Services & Protection for Joshua The Son/Savior
- Japheth Kimutai (born 1978), Kenyan middle distance runner
- Japhet Korir (born 1993), Kenyan long-distance runner and 2013 World Cross Country Champion
- Levi ben Japheth (11th century), Karaite Jewish scholar
- Israel Meyer Japhet (1818-1892), German cantor and grammarian
Usage examples of "japheth".
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.