Japheth [7947] ²⁴

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http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal03175

http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps11/ps11_089.htm

Japhet was the eldest son of Noah. He had fifteen sons, amongst whom he divided Europe and the part of Asia which his father had allotted to him.

Part II of Irish Pedigrees, or The origin and stem of the Irish nation, by John O'Hart, published 1892, pages 44-55

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Noah


Japheth is traditionally seen as the ancestor of Europeans, as well as some more eastern nations; thus Japhetic has been used as a synonym for Caucasians . Caucasian itself derives in part from the assumption that the tribe of Japheth developed its distinctive racial characteristics in the Caucasus , where Mount Ararat is located. The term Japhetic was also applied by the early linguists (brothers Grimm , William Jones , Rasmus C. Rask and others) to what later became known as the Indo-European language group, on the assumption that, if descended from Japheth, the principal languages of Europe would have a common origin, which apart from Finno-Ugric , Kartvelian , Pontic , Nakh , Dagestan , and Basque , appears to be the case. In a conflicting sense, the term was also used by the Soviet linguist Nikolai Marr in his Japhetic theory intended to demonstrate that the languages of the Caucasus formed part of a once-widespread pre-Indo-European language group.
In classical times, and among a minority of modern students, various arguments have been proposed that the Roman deity Jupiter </wiki/Jupiter_(god)> may have been a deified Japheth, and further, that he became known in Greek as 'Iapetos ', and in Sanskrit as 'Pra-Japati '. Modern linguists dispute whether there are any actual connections between 'Pra-Japati', which translates as Lord of Creatures, Iapetos, Jupiter, a corruption of Dyeus Pater, meaning 'sky father', and Japheth, meaning open, and attempts to connect these deities with Japheth are often regarded as poor scholarship and folk etymology .
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Biblical statement that God shall enlarge Japheth (Genesis 9:27) was used by some imperialists as a justification for the "enlargement" of European territories through Imperialism , interpreted as part of God's plan for the world.

Japheth married Adataneses [60817] [MRIN: 551617191], daughter of Eliakim [5548] and Unknown.