Old Testament

Genesis 10:2-5
The Descendants of Japheth
2The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek, and Tiras.[]
3The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim,[] and the Dodanim.
5The islands and coastlands were divided into different lands among these peoples on the basis of their languages, their ethnic groups, and their nations.

Footnotes

  • 10:2 Some of these names are the names both of ancestral individuals and of ethnic groups that were derived from them. Some of the names also serve as names of geographic places.
  • 10:4 The names ending in -im are peoples rather than individuals. Usually we render these names with the suffix -ites, except for a few primordial groups whose names also occur as names of geographic places, such as the Valley of Rephaim. The name Kittim is retained because it is common in literature about the Bible.