And Noah, when he was five hundred years old, begot Sem, Cham, and Japheth.
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Japheth
//ˈdʒɛ̯ɪfɪf//
Synonyms for "japheth"
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35 translations across 24 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- Yefet name (third son of Noah)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- Ἰάφεθ name (third son of Noah)
Arabic
1 entries- يَافَث name (third son of Noah)
Armenian
1 entries- Հաբեթ name (third son of Noah)
Bengali
1 entries- ইয়াফেস name (third son of Noah)
Czech
1 entries- Jáfet name (third son of Noah)
Dutch
1 entries- Jafet name (third son of Noah)
Finnish
1 entries- Jaafet name (third son of Noah)
Franco-Provençal
1 entries- Japhét name (third son of Noah)
French
2 entries- Jafet name (third son of Noah)
- Japhet name (third son of Noah)
German
2 entries- Japhet name (third son of Noah)
- Japheth name (third son of Noah)
Greek
1 entries- Ιάφεθ name (third son of Noah)
Hungarian
1 entries- Jáfet name (third son of Noah)
Irish
1 entries- Iáfat name (third son of Noah)
Italian
1 entries- Jafet name (third son of Noah)
Latin
4 entries- Iafeth name (third son of Noah)
- Iapetus name (third son of Noah)
- Iaphet name (third son of Noah)
- Iapheth name (third son of Noah)
Middle English
1 entries- Jafeth name (third son of Noah)
Middle French
1 entries- Japhet name (third son of Noah)
Old Armenian
1 entries- Յաբէթ name (third son of Noah)
Polish
1 entries- Jafet name (third son of Noah)
Portuguese
1 entries- Jafé name (third son of Noah)
Russian
1 entries- Иафе́т name (third son of Noah)
Spanish
2 entries- Jafet name (third son of Noah)
- Japhet name (third son of Noah)
Vietnamese
1 entries- Gia-phết name (third son of Noah)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
And the sons of Noah, who came out of the ark, were Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
Source: tatoeba (7958161)
But Shem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Source: tatoeba (7959494)
May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan be his servant.
Source: tatoeba (7959549)
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