Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H3315
יֶפֶת
Yephethyeh'-feth
Japheth
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3315is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3315
Jepheth, a son of Noah; also his posterity
The King James renders it: Japheth.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Yepheth is rendered "Japheth". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 5:32After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 5:32יָֽפֶת׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nine of the word's eleven uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and Japheth5
- Japheth5
- to Japheth1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וָיָ֑פֶת2
- יֶ֔פֶת2
- יָֽפֶת׃2
- וָיֶ֖פֶת1
- וָיֶ֜פֶת1
- וָיָֽפֶת׃ ס1
- יֶ֥פֶת1
- לְיֶ֔פֶת1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)5HC/Npm
- proper noun (a name)5HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npm
Genesis
nine uses
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- יָֽפֶת׃yafetproper noun (a name)tagged: Japheth
And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- יָֽפֶת׃yafetproper noun (a name)tagged: Japheth
On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
- וָיֶ֖פֶתvayefetconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Japheth
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
- וָיָ֑פֶתvayafetconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Japheth
Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
- וָיֶ֜פֶתvayefetconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Japheth
May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”
- לְיֶ֔פֶתleyefetpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Japheth
This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.
- וָיָ֑פֶתvayafetconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Japheth
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
- יֶ֔פֶתyefetproper noun (a name)tagged: Japheth
And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.
- יֶ֥פֶתyefetproper noun (a name)tagged: Japheth
1 Chronicles
two uses
The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- וָיָֽפֶת׃ סvayafetconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Japheth
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
- יֶ֔פֶתyefetproper noun (a name)tagged: Japheth
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.