1. Japheth (proper name) — The proper name Yepheth (יֶפֶת), the eldest (or youngest, debated) son of Noah, ancestor of the Indo-European and northern peoples in the Table of Nations (Gen 5:32, 6:10, 7:13, 9:18, 23, 27, 10:1, 2, 21; 1 Chr 1:4, 5). All three clusters are the same personal name in different syntactic frames: bare or with lamed (S103077, 5x), with waw-copulative (S103078, 4x), and another waw-copulative or bare variant (S103079, 2x). Multilingual evidence is uniform: Spanish Yafet/Yefet, Arabic يَافِثَ (Yāfith), Hindi याफेत (Yāphet), Korean 야벳/야벟 (Yabet), Swahili Yafethi. No semantic distinction exists between clusters. 11×
AR["لِ-يَافِثَ","وَ-يافِث","وَ-يَافِثُ","يافِث","يَافَثَ","يَافِثَ"]·ben["আর-যেফত","এবং-যফথ","ও-যেফৎ","যফথ","যেফতের","যেফতের-জন্য"]·DE["Japhet","Japhets","[ויפת]","[יפת]","dem-Japhet","und-Japhet"]·EN["Japheth","Yapheth","Yepheth","and-Japheth","and-Yapheth","for-Japheth"]·FR["Japhet","Japheth","et-Japhet","et-Japheth","pour-Japhet"]·heb["ו-יפת","יפת","ל-יפת"]·HI["और-याफेत","और-याफेत-ने","याफेत","याफेत-का","याफेत-के","याफेत-को"]·ID["Yafet","dan-Yafet"]·IT["Iafet","Jafet","Yapheth","e-Iafet","e-Jafet","per-Iafet"]·jav["Yafet","Yafèt","lan-Yafet","lan-Yafèt"]·KO["그-와-야벳","그리고-야벟","그리고-야벟-이","그리고-야벳","야벟","야벳","야벳의","야뼿","에-야벟"]·PT["Jafé","Yefet","a-Yefet","e-Jafé","e-Yafet","e-Yefet"]·RU["Иафета","Йефета","и-Иафет","и-Йефет"]·ES["Yafet","Yefet","a-Yafet","y-Yafet","y-Yefet"]·SW["Yafethi","na-Yafethi"]·TR["Yafet'i","Yafet'in","ve-Yafet"]·urd["اور-یافت","اور-یافث","اور-یافث-نے","و-یافت","یافت","یافث","یافث-کو","یافث-کے"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† יֶ֫פֶת n.pr.m. third son of Noah, Ιαφεθ;—יַפְתְּ א׳ לְיֶפֶת ׃יֶפֶת Gn 9:27 (J), 7:13; 10:2 (P) = 1 Ch 1:4; Gn 9:23; 10:21 (J); יָפֶ֑ת 9:18 (J), 5:32; 6:10; 10:1 (P), 1 Ch 1:5.