Bible Names

Magog: meaning of the name

Magog means “covering; roof; dissolving.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Magog in Hebrew and Greek

מָגוֹג H4031

Mâgôwg (maw-gogue') — Magog, a son of Japheth; also a barbarous northern region

from H1463 (גּוֹג);

Μαγώγ G3098

Magṓg — Magog, a foreign nation, i.e. (figuratively) an Antichristian party

of Hebrew origin (H04031);

Who named Magog in the Bible

Places named Magog

Magog in Scripture

“Magog” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 10:2

    The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:5

    The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

  • Ezekiel 38:2

    Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

  • Ezekiel 39:6

    And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

  • Revelation 20:8

    And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.