Atlas Biblica

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    Japheth

    יֶ֫פֶת

    Japheth was one of Noah's three sons and the ancestor of the Indo-European peoples.

    IllustrationGenesis 9Shem and Japheth conceal their father's nakedness without looking at him.
    verses
    11
    first named
    Genesis 5:32
    last named
    1 Chronicles 1:5
    period
    the Patriarchs
    tribe
    Early Patriarch

    Description

    Who was Japheth?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Japheth was one of the three sons of Noah, along with Shem and Ham, as recorded in Gen.5.32 and Gen.6.10. He and his brothers were born before the Great Flood. Japheth, his wife, and his brothers and their wives entered the ark with Noah and survived the Flood (Gen.7.13). After the Flood, Noah blessed Japheth, saying, "May God extend Japheth's territory; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth" (Gen.9.27). Japheth's descendants are listed in Gen.10.2-5 and 1Ch.1.5-7, and they are generally associated with the Indo-European peoples, including the Greeks, Medes, and Thracians. The name Japheth means "enlargement" or "expansion," which is fitting given the widespread distribution of his descendants. Japheth's offspring played a significant role in the repopulation of the earth after the Flood and the development of various nations and cultures.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Japheth 10 of 16 entities the graph connects to Japheth, in 2 groups: kinship 5, events 5. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.NoahChild of · 2 events · 47 versesJavanFather of · 1 event · 31 versesShemSibling of · 9 events · 17 versesHamSibling of · 4 events · 10 versesGomerFather of · 1 event · 5 versesKinshipSeeing1 event · 255 versesSon1 event · 218 versesCanaan1 event · 9 versesCush1 event · 6 versesEgypt1 event · 4 versesEventsJapheth

    The 10 best-attested of 16 are drawn. All 16 are listed below.

    Child of

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    Sibling of

    Stands in the same events as

    and 4 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    Places

    Where this happens

    A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.

    No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.

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    The pattern

    Where Japheth is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 11 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS9 VERSES1 CHRONICLES2 VERSES53 books and 822 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 11 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS9 VERSES1 CHRONICLES2 VERSES53 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Japheth is named in 11 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 64 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 11, across 2 books.

    1. Genesis9 verses

      5:326:107:139:189:239:2710:110:210:21

    2. 1 Chronicles2 verses

      1:41:5

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via NaamahJabalSon of Lamech; father of nomadic herdsmen.via NaamahJubalFather of musicians who play the lyre and pipevia NaamahLamechDescendant of Cain; first polygamist mentioned in the Biblevia NoahLamechFather of Noah; lived 777 yearsvia NaamahTubal-cainDescendant of Cain, first metalworkervia NaamahZillahWife of Lamech; mother of Tubal-Cain and Naamahvia HamCanaanSon of Ham; father of Sidon and Hethvia HamCushSon of Ham; father of Nimrod and other descendantsvia HamEgyptDescendant of Ham, ancestor of African peoples
    ElsewhereGenealogy of JaphethEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on