"Aggrandizement".
Name of the youngest of Noah's sons (Gen. 9:24; 10:21) who, together with his father, his wife and Noah's other relatives, was saved from the Flood (Gen. 7:7; 1 Pet. 3: twenty).
The book of Genesis says that Japheth was the father of the nations of Europe (Gen. 10:5).
Japheth was, perhaps, the "Iapetos" whom Greek legends represent as the progenitor of the Greek race. His seven sons (Gen. 10:2-5; 1 Chron. 1:5) occupied northern Asia and most of Europe with their posterity.
In later times the Greeks and Romans subjugated considerable parts of South Asia (Gen. 9:27).
Among the peoples identified as his descendants we can list:
the Cimerans (Gomer),
the Scythians (Ashkenaz),
the Medes (Madai),
the Slavs (Meshech),
the Ionians (Javan),
the Cypriots (Quitim) and
the inhabitants of Rhodes (Dodanim).
Meaning of JAPHETH
"Aggrandizement".
Name of the youngest of Noah's sons (Gen. 9:24; 10:21) who, together with his father, his wife and Noah's other relatives, was saved from the Flood (Gen. 7:7; 1 Pet. 3: twenty).
