Japhethite

Japheth (Biblical character)
"Japheth third son of Noah", as depicted in Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum (c. 1553)
Children	Gomer Magog Madai Javan Tubal Meshech Tiras
Parent(s)	Noah

Japheth /ˈdʒeɪfɛθ/ (Hebrew: יָפֶת/יֶפֶת‎ Yapheth, Modern Hebrew: Yefet; Greek: Ἰάφεθ Iapheth; Latin: Iafeth, Iapheth, Iaphethus, Iapetus), meaning "May God enlarge", is one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis, where he plays a role in the story of Noah's drunkenness and the curse of Ham, and subsequently in the Table of Nations as the ancestor of the peoples of Europe and Anatolia. In medieval and early modern European tradition he was considered to be the progenitor of European and, later, East Asian peoples.

Japheth first appears in the Book of Genesis as a one of the three sons of Noah, saved through the Ark. They are always in the order "Shem, Ham, and Japheth" when all three are listed (Genesis 5:32, 9:18 and 10:1), but Genesis 9:24 calls Ham the youngest, and Genesis 10:21 refers ambiguously to Shem as "brother of Japheth the elder," which could mean that either is the eldest. Most modern writers accept Shem-Ham-Japheth as reflecting birth order, but this is not always the case: Moses and Rachel also appear at the head of such lists despite explicit descriptions of them as younger siblings.