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In the Book of Genesis, they are always in the order "Shem, Ham, and Japheth" when all three are listed. [6] [7] Genesis 9:24 calls Ham the youngest, [7] and Genesis 10:21 refers ambiguously to Shem as "brother of Japheth the elder", which could mean that either is the eldest. [8]
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 (/ 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). The children of Shem are Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram, in ...
The Persian historian Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (c. 915) recounts that Japheth's wife was Arbasisah, daughter of Marazil, son of al-Darmasil, son of Mehujael, son of Enoch, son of Cain; that Ham's wife was Naḥlab, daughter of Marib, another son of al-Darmasil; and that Shem's wife was Ṣalib, daughter of Batawil, another son of Mehujael ...
Shem begat Arphaxad two years after the flood when he was 100 years old. [ 45 ] In the Masoretic, Vulgate and the Samaritan Pentateuch the method of starting from the birth of Noah and adding exactly 500 years until Shem, and adding another 100 years until the birth of Arphaxad (Born 2 years after the flood) would be the same year as the death ...
Shem, Ham, and Japheth, painting by James Tissot (between 1896 and 1902). Jewish Museum (Manhattan, New York).Ham is in the centre with stereotypically African features: dark skin and hair, and a broad nose.
The dispersion of the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth (map from the 1854 Historical Textbook and Atlas of Biblical Geography) Genesis 10 [29] sets forth the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, from whom the nations branched out over the Earth after the flood. Among Japheth's descendants were the maritime nations (10:2–5).
Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle, showing Shem, Ham and Japheth over their corners of the world. Hippolytus of Rome, in his Diamerismos (c. 234, existing in numerous Latin and Greek copies), [3] made another attempt to assign ethnicities to the names in Genesis 10. It is thought to have been based on the Book of Jubilees. [4]