Japheth

2494 V.C. - Yes, date unknown    Has 26 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Japheth   [1]
  Birth	2494 V.C.  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Siblings	2 Siblings
  + 1. Japheth,   b. 2494 V.C.   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Adâtanêsês + 2. Shem,   b. 2454 V.C.   d. 1844 V.C. ▻ Sêdêqêtêlebâb + 3. Ham   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Egyptus
  Person ID	I114645	Geneagraphie | Voorouders HW
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2010

  
  

  Father	Noah,   b. 2944 V.C.   d. 1994 V.C.
  Mother	Emzârâ   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F46064	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Adâtanêsês   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	+ 1. Gomer   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Magog   d. Yes, date unknown + 3. Madai   d. Yes, date unknown + 4. Javan   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Tubal   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Meshech   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Tiras   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F46066	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2010

  
  

• Notes

  JAPHETH (Ja'pheth) [Let him make wide]. Although usually listed last, Japheth appears to have been the eldest of the three sons as the Hebrew text of Genesis 10:21 refers to Japheth the oldest (AV; Da; Yg; Le; NW; AS, ftn.). Some translators however, understand the Hebrew text here to refer instead to Shem as "the elder brother of Japheth" (RS; AT; others). Considering Japheth to be Noah's eldest son would place the time of his birth at approximately 2470 B.C.E. -Gen. 5:32. Japheth and his wife were among the eight occupants of the ark, thereby surviving the Flood (Gen. 7:13; 1 Pet. 3:20). Remaining childless until after the Flood, they thereafter produced seven sons: Gomer, Magog, Medai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tires (Gen. 10:1, 2; 1 Chron. 1:5). These sons and also some grandsons are the ones from whom the population of the isles of the nations [coastland peoples, RS] was spread about in their lands each according to its tongue according to their families by their nations (Gen. 10:3-5; 1 Chron. 1:6, 7). Historically, Japheth was the progenitor of the Aryan or Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) branch of the human family. The names of his sons and grandsons are found in ancient historical texts as relating to peoples and tribes residing mainly to the N and W of the Fertile Crescent. They appear to have spread from the Caucasus eastward into Central Asia and westward through Asia Minor to the islands and coastlands of Europe and perhaps all the way to Spain. Arabic traditions claim that one of Japheth's sons was also the progenitor of the Chinese peoples. (*1) As a result of Japheth's respectful action taken in company with his brother Shem, on the occasion of their father's drunkenness, Japheth was the object of his fathers blessing (Gen. 9:20-27). In that blessing Noah requested for Japheth that God "grant ample space [Heb., ya'phet ]" to him. This Hebrew expression is evidently derived from the same root word as the name Japheth (Heb., Ye'pheth) and appears to indicate that the meaning of Japheth's name would be fulfilled in a literal sense and that his descendants would spread out over a wide area. His 'residing in the tents of Shem' (*2) is thought by some to indicate a peaceful relationship to exist between the Japhethites and the Shemites. However, since history does not particularly present such a peaceful association it may rather be connected prophetically with God's later promise to Shem's descendants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that in their "seed" all the families of the earth (including those descended from Japheth) would be blessed (Gen. 22:15-18; 26:3,4; 28:10,13,14; compare Acts 10:34-36; Galatians 3:28,29). Canaan's 'becoming a slave to the Japhethites' (*3) finds fulfillment in the domination of the land of Canaan (Palestine) during the rule of the Medo-Persian Empire (a Japhetic power) and in the later conquest by the Greeks and Romans, including the conquest of the Canaanite strongholds of Tyre and Sidon. - - - - - NOTATION *1: The most accurate version of history documents and ancient Chinese genealogy records indicates that the Chinese race is a Hamite one and that they descend from Put, a son of Ham. Also, too, the Shemite influence, from the ancient Chow (Chou) family, plays a major part in the culture and civilization of the Chinese people and it is the Chou clan which forms the basis for the entire existence of China's civilization! Arabic sources, cites "Ian" (pronounced "Yan" in the Chinese language), a son of ancient biblical mentioned Mede, as the progenitor of the Chinese race of people. This, too, is in error, as an accurate reading of Chinese text demonstrates that "Yan" was merely looked up to as a related senior clan father and no more. The founding father of the Chinese people is, as Chinese sources believe, a person who went by the appellation "Huang Di," his true name, being forever lost with time. When one examines the entire civilization and history of the Chinese people (from about 2,300 B.C. to 1,996 A.D.), in light of Biblical and world history, it becomes apparent to the trained eye of the scholar that China is a Shemite civilization that compromised her roots (1) in absorption of an alien, primitive, and barbaric civilization that at one time was under the wings (direction and guidance) of Nimrod . . . being, perhaps, caught either unaware or by their own devise or greed. Or (2) by it being overtaken or absorbed by a crude and barbaric Hamite population of people, again, under the expressed direction of the people and culture of Nimrod. The true progenitor of the Chinese people, given this history and based upon China's culture (way of life, thinking, principles, and values) would then be the Chou clan patriarch JOBAB, from whom the Chou name is derived. NOTATION *2: Noah's words, "let him reside in the tents of Shem" were probably spiritually motivated words uttered upon learning about the badness that Ham had done and in appreciation of the upright conduct of Japheth and Shem. As we understand the Bible, during the days of Noah, it was Shem's faith in Jehovah God which Noah saw and acknowledged. The word 'reside,' sentence, and passage has a figurative meaning. The passages of Genesis 9:20-27, as with any Bible pronouncement, has its modern day expanded application and is therefore important in our modern day world. In the days of Noah, it was Shem's faith in Jehovah that was strong and respectful of God Jehovah, whom Noah worshiped. NOTATION *3: Canaan (Ham and his descendants) 'becoming a slave' to Japheth and Shem (Japheth, Shem and their descendants) finds its fulfillment, rather, in the evolutionary outworking of mankind's history, where we find that the descendants of Ham turning away their faith in Jehovah becoming enslaved to heathen practices and all the badness that follows. It is the descendants of Japheth and Shem that figure most, in mankind's history, in the true worship of Jehovah as God.

  
  

• Sources

  [S8] Ernst-Friedrich Kraentzler, Ancestry of Richard Plantagenet & Cecily de Neville, (published by author 1978 , , Repository: J.H. Garner), chart 1790 (Reliability: 0). [S8] Ernst-Friedrich Kraentzler, Ancestry of Richard Plantagenet & Cecily de Neville, (published by author 1978 , , Repository: J.H. Garner), p 375 (Reliability: 0).