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As Japheth was dying he established Turk, his firstborn son, as his successor. [citation needed] According to the 18th-century Hui Muslim writer Liu Zhi, after Noah's flood, Japheth inherited China as the eastern portion of the Earth, while Shem inherited Arabia as the middle portion, and Ham inherited Europe as the western portion. [22]
Japheth (in Hebrew: Yā́p̄eṯ or Yép̄eṯ) may be a transliteration of the Greek Iapetos, the ancestor of the Hellenic peoples. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] His sons and grandsons associate him with the geographic area comprising the Aegean Sea , Greece , the Caucasus , and Anatolia : Ionia / Javan , Rhodes / Rodanim , Cyprus / Kittim , and other places ...
Japheth's descendants: His name is associated with the mythological Greek Titan Iapetus, and his sons include Javan, the Greek city-states of Ionia. [31] In Genesis 9:27 it forms a pun with the Hebrew root yph: "May God make room [the hiphil of the yph root] for Japheth, that he may live in Shem's tents and Canaan may be his slave." [32]
Shem, Ham and Japheth by James Tissot c. 1900. Shem is on the far right with stereotypically Asian features. Shem is on the far right with stereotypically Asian features. Shem ( / ʃ ɛ m / ; Hebrew : שֵׁם Šēm ; Arabic : سَام , romanized : Sām ) [ a ] is one of the sons of Noah in the Bible ( Genesis 5–11 [ 1 ] and 1 Chronicles 1:4).
Javan (Hebrew: יָוָן, romanized: Yāwān) was the fourth son of Noah's son Japheth according to the "Generations of Noah" (Book of Genesis, chapter 10) in the Hebrew Bible. Josephus states the traditional belief that this individual was the ancestor of the Greeks .
Nothing is certain but death and taxes, and where those two intersect -- wills and the estates people leave behind when they pass -- there's supposed to be some certainty as well.
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The chronological scheme of the pseudepigraphal Book of Jubilees has Ham born in the year 1209 Anno Mundi (A.M.) – two years after Shem, three before Japheth, and 99 before the flood. It gives the name of his wife who also survived the flood as Na'eltama'uk. After his youngest son Canaan was cursed in 1321 A.M., he left Mount Ararat and built ...