Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H3315: יֶפֶת

Yepheth · pronounced yeh'-feth · “Japheth”

Definition

Jepheth, a son of Noah; also his posterity

KJV translates it as: Japheth.

Word origin: from H6601 (פָּתָה); expansion;

Extended 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

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H3315 is translated

  • japheth ×11

Bible verses with H3315 (Yepheth)

Yepheth appears in 11 verses.

  • Genesis 5:32

    And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  • Genesis 6:10

    And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  • Genesis 7:13

    In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

  • Genesis 9:18

    And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

  • Genesis 9:23

    And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

  • Genesis 9:27

    God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

  • Genesis 10:1

    Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

  • Genesis 10:2

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

  • Genesis 10:21

    Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:4

    Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:5

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