יֶפֶתYepheth

proper name, masculine: third son of Noah (Genesis 9:27; Genesis 7:13; Genesis 10:2; 1 Chronicles 1:4; Genesis 9:23)

Pronunciation: yeh'-feth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3315

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 11 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 5:32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
  • Genesis 6:10 Noah was the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
  • Genesis 7:13 That very day Noah had gone into the boat with his wife and his sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives.
  • Genesis 9:18 The sons of Noah who came out of the boat with their father were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham is the father of Canaan.)
  • Genesis 9:23 Then Shem and Japheth took a robe, held it over their shoulders, and backed into the tent to cover their father. As they did this, they looked the other way so they would not see him naked.
  • Genesis 9:27 May God expand the territory of Japheth! May Japheth share the prosperity of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).