1 Chronicles 1:5
New International Version
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras.

New Living Translation
The descendants of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

English Standard Version
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

King James Bible
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

New King James Version
The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

New American Standard Bible
The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

NASB 1995
The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.

NASB 1977
The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Legacy Standard Bible
The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Amplified Bible
The sons (descendants) of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Christian Standard Bible
Japheth’s sons: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Japheth’s sons: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

American Standard Version
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The sons of Yaphet: Gamar and Magug and Maday and Yavan and Tubeil and Mashak and Tiras.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The sons of Japheth, Gamer, Magog, Madaim, Jovan, Helisa, Thobel, Mosoch, and Thiras.

Contemporary English Version
Japheth was the father of Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras, and they were the ancestors of the kingdoms named after them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, Thubal, Mosoch, Thiras.

English Revised Version
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Japheth's descendants were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Good News Translation
The sons of Japheth--Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras--were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.

International Standard Version
Japheth's descendants were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

Literal Standard Version
Sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

Majority Standard Bible
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

New American Bible
The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

NET Bible
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

New Revised Standard Version
The descendants of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

New Heart English Bible
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

Webster's Bible Translation
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

World English Bible
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Young's Literal Translation
Sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
From Adam to Abraham
4The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 5The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 6The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.…

Cross References
Genesis 10:2
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

1 Chronicles 1:4
The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

1 Chronicles 1:6
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

Psalm 120:5
Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!


Treasury of Scripture

The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

Genesis 10:1-5
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood…

Ezekiel 27:13
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

Ezekiel 38:2,3,6
Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, …

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1 Chronicles 1
1. Adam's line to Noah.
5. The sons of Japheth.
8. The sons of Ham.
17. The sons of Shem.
24. Shem's line to Abraham.
29. Ishmael's sons.
32. The sons of Keturah.
34. The posterity of Abraham by Esau.
38. The sons of Seir.
43. The kings of Edom.
51. The dukes of Edom.














THE SONS OF JAPHETH THE FAIR--(1Chronicles 1:5-7).

The Oriental theory of political and even social communities refers each to a common ancestor. The Israelites are known as "sons of Israel," the Ammonites as "sons of Ammon" (Authorised version, "children"). In the same way, an Arab tribe is called. the "Beni Hassan" (sons of Hassan), and Assurbanipal styles his subjects "sons of Asshur." Sometimes a people is called "sons" of the land or city they inhabit; e.g., the Babylonians are styled "sons of Babel." The "sons of Japheth" are probably the fair Caucasian race.

(5) Gomer.--The Cimmerians of the Greek writers; called Gi-mir-ra-a-a in Assyrian inscriptions. Their country was Cappadocia, called Gamir by the ancient Armenians. The Arabic version has "Turkey."

Magog.--Ezekiel 38:2-3; Ezekiel 38:6 speaks of Gog, king of Magog, and suzerain of Tubal, Meshech, Gomer and the house of Togarmah. With the name Gog compare Gagu, king of Salii, mentioned in connection with Assurbanipal's campaign against the Manna-a. Magog appears to be a general name for the peoples north of Assyria, i.e., in Armenia.

Madai.--The Medes. 2Kings 17:6; Isaiah 13:17. Assyr., Ma-da-a-a. . . .

Verses 5-7. - B. LIST OF SONS AND GRANDSONS OF JAPHETH. After the mention of Noah's three sons, in the order of their age (though some on slender ground think Ham the youngest), this order, as in Genesis 10:2, is reversed; and the compiler, beginning with Japheth, the youngest, apparently with the view of disposing of what his purpose may not so particularly require, gives the names of seven sons and seven grandsons, viz. three through Gomar, the eldest son, and four through Javan, the fourth son. These fourteen names are identical in the Authorized Version with the list of Genesis 10:2-4. The Septuagint, though not identical in the spelling of the four names Madai, Tiras, Tarshish, and Kittim, shows no material differences in the two places. In the Hebrew, according to the text and edition consulted, very slight variations are found in the orthography of Tubal (וְתֻבָּל here for וְתֻבָל) and Tarshish (וְתַרְשִׁישָׁח here for וְתַרְשִׁישׁ)and in the adoption of Riphath and Dodanim in this book for Diphath and Rodanim. The names Kittim and Dodanim look less like names of individuals than of such family, tribe, or nation as descended from the individual. At the close of this short enumeration, we have in Genesis the statement, "By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations." It is evident here also that, whether the compiler borrowed from the Book of Genesis itself, or from some common source open to both, his objects are not exactly the same. Time and the present position and condition of that part of his people for which he was writing governed him, and dictated the difference. Accordingly we do not pause here on the colonizings and the fresh seats and habitations of the sons and grandsons of Japheth. The subject, one of extreme interest, and the threads of it perhaps not so hopelessly lost as is sometimes thought, belongs to the place in Genesis from which the above verse is cited. It may, however, be written here that the rather verbose disquisitions of Joseph Mede are neither altogether unin-retorting nor in some parts of them unlikely. They form Discourses 47, 48, bk. 1. (edit. 'The Works of Joseph Mode.' London, 1664).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The sons
בְּנֵ֣י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Japheth:
יֶ֔פֶת (ye·p̄eṯ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3315: Japheth -- a son of Noah

Gomer,
גֹּ֣מֶר (gō·mer)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1586: Gomer -- a son of Japheth, also his descendants, also the wife of Hosea

Magog,
וּמָג֔וֹג (ū·mā·ḡō·wḡ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4031: Magog -- perhaps 'land of Gog', a son of Japheth, also his descendants and their land

Madai,
וּמָדַ֖י (ū·mā·ḏay)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4074: Media -- a son of Japheth, also his descendants and their land

Javan,
וְיָוָ֣ן (wə·yā·wān)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3120: Javan -- a son of Japheth, also his descendants and their land

Tubal,
וְתֻבָ֑ל (wə·ṯu·ḇāl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8422: Tubal -- a son of Japheth, also his descendants and their land

Meshech,
וּמֶ֖שֶׁךְ (ū·me·šeḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4902: Meshech -- a son of Japheth, also his descendants and their land

and Tiras.
וְתִירָֽס׃ (wə·ṯî·rās)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8494: Tiras -- a son of Japheth and his desc


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