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# יֶפֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3315

**Japheth** — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Japheth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3315/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יֶ֫פֶת²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3315/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. third son of Noah, Ιαφεθ;—יַפְתְּ א׳ לְיֶפֶת ׃יֶפֶת Gn 9:27 (J), 7:13; 10:2 (P) = 1 Ch 1:4; Gn 9:23; 10:21 (J); יָפֶ֑ת 9:18 (J), 5:32; 6:10; 10:1 (P), 1 Ch 1:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Japheth (8); of Japheth (3).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.4/#tree)

נֹ֥חַ שֵׁ֖ם חָ֥ם וָיָֽפֶת׃ס

*Word for word:* Noah Shem Ham and Japheth

*JPS 1917:* Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

[Genesis 6:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.10/#tree)

וַיּ֥וֹלֶד נֹ֖חַ שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה בָנִ֑ים אֶת־שֵׁ֖ם אֶת־חָ֥ם וְאֶת־יָֽפֶת׃

*Word for word:* and he.fathered Noah three sons (et) Shem (et) Ham and (et) Japheth

*JPS 1917:* And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3315.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3315/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).