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[3] The list of 70 names introduces for the first time several well-known ethnonyms and toponyms important to biblical geography, [4] such as Noah's three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, from which 18th-century German scholars at the Göttingen school of history derived the race terminology Semites, Hamites, and Japhetites.
Japheth / ˈ dʒ eɪ f ɛ θ / (Hebrew: יֶפֶת Yép̄eṯ, in pausa יָפֶת Yā́p̄eṯ; Greek: Ἰάφεθ Iápheth; Latin: Iafeth, Iapheth, Iaphethus, Iapetus; Arabic: يافث Yāfith) is one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis, in which he plays a role in the story of Noah's drunkenness and the curse of Ham, and subsequently in the Table of Nations as the ancestor ...
Phut or Put (Hebrew: פּוּט Pūṭ; Septuagint Greek Φουδ Phoud) is the third son of Ham (one of the sons of Noah), in the biblical Table of Nations (Genesis 10:6; cf. 1 Chronicles 1:8). The name Put (or Phut) is used in the Bible for Ancient Libya, but a few scholars proposed the Land of Punt known from Ancient Egyptian annals. [1]
In medieval and early modern European tradition he was considered to be the ancestor of the peoples of Asia, [2] [3] [4] and he gives his name to the title "Semites" formerly given to West Asian peoples. [5] Islamic literature describes Shem as one of the believing sons of Noah. Some sources even identify Shem as a prophet in his own right and ...
Geographic identifications for the Sons of Noah (Flavius Josephus, c. 100 AD); Ham's sons are in blue. Ham [a] (in Hebrew: חָם), according to the Table of Nations in the Book of Genesis, was the second son of Noah [1] and the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan. [2] [3]
Barry Sanders was an NFL great, and his sons, Barry J., Nigel, Nicholas and Noah Sanders, have followed in his athletic footsteps.. The Pro Football Hall of Fame running back is very close with ...
A 3-year-old Indiana boy is fighting for his life after he was severely beaten, news outlets and family reported. Noah Brown was happy and full of life, his grandmother, Candy King, told McClatchy ...
Following the Genesis flood narrative, a large multi-branched genealogy presents the descendants of the sons of Noah. (Genesis 10:9) The 70 names given represent biblical geography, consisting of local ethnonyms and toponyms presented in the form of eponymous ancestors (names in origin-myth genealogies that are to be understood as ancestors and ...