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Definition of Japhetite

Japhetite
Japhetite Ja"phet*ite, n. A descendant of Japheth.

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- The term ****hetites (sometimes spelled ****hethites; in adjective form ****hetic or ****hethitic) refers to the descendants of ****heth, one of the three sons...
- "Gog, prince of Magog" in Ezekiel 38:2 and 39:1, and is considered a ****hetite tribe, identified by Flavius Josephus with the Cappadocian "Mosocheni"...
- in the Book of Genesis, together with the parallel terms Hamites and ****hetites. In archaeology, the term is sometimes used informally as "a kind of shorthand"...
- Jewish historian Josephus knew them as the nation descended from Magog the ****hetite, as in Genesis, and explained them to be the Scythians. In the hands of...
- school of history derived the race terminology Semites, Hamites, and ****hetites. Certain of Noah's grandsons were also used for names of peoples: from...
- list. The early modern equation of the biblical Semites, Hamites and ****hetites with "racial" phenotypes was coined at the Göttingen school of history...
- the founder of the Arabs, the connection of "Semites", "Hamites" and "****hetites" to the classical nations of the world, and the story of the siege of...
- prince of the Semites, and to Phenech son of Dodanim, as prince of the ****hetites. Twelve men are arrested for refusing to bring bricks, including Abraham...
- Josephus (Antiquities of the Jews), which made ****heth the ancestor of the "****hetites", i.e. the Indo-European speaking peoples. Iapetus was linked to ****heth...
- Asia and those of Ham peopling Africa. Identification of Europeans as "****hetites" is also reflected in early suggestions for terming the Indo-European...