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Japheth
יפת בן נח he Iapheth la Ἰάφεθ grc
Biblical figure, son of Noah
- Child of Noah, Naamah and Noah in Islam
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Family
The family of Japheth
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 11
Kinship in an account 10
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Noah biblical prophet, son of Lamech, major figure in the Book of Genesis - parent of (father) Gomer Bible character, son of Japheth (Genesis 10)
- parent of (father) Javan son of Japheth and father of the Greeks according to the Bible
- parent of (father) Madai Biblical character, son of Japhet
- parent of (father) Magog Son of Japheth in Genesis 10, and people descended from him
- parent of (father) Meshech biblical figure (Genesis 10)
- parent of (father) Tiras Son of Japheth
- parent of (father) Tubal Biblical character, son of Japheth
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sibling of Ham biblical figure, son of Noah -
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sibling of Shem Biblical figure, son of Noah, ancestor of the Semites
Family 1
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
Connections
How Japheth connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
14 statements on this record
- 11 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 2 collection memberships. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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