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View Name: Japheth
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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