Yephet יֶ֫פֶת

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Yephet
יֶ֫פֶת
Transliterationyephet
Strong's numberH3315
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a man
GlossJapheth
Occurrences11 in 11 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (9)

Yephet (Hebrew יֶ֫פֶת, Strong's H3315) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Japheth”. It occurs 11 times.

Definition

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.5.32;
son of: Noah (H5146);
brother of: Shem (H8035) and Ham (H2526);
father of: Gomer (H1586), Magog (H4031), Madai (H4074), Javan (H3120), Tubal (H8422), Meshech (H4902) and Tiras (H8494)
§ Japheth = "opened"
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

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVjapheth (11)
BSBjapheth (11)

Verses

Every verse with Yephet, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

1 Chronicles

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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