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JAPHETH

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Biblical

Pronounced: JAY-fəth (English)   [key]

From the Hebrew name יֶפֶת (Yefet) meaning "enlarged". In the Old Testament he was one of the three sons of Noah and the ancestor of the peoples of Europe and North Asia.
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