What race is Japheth?

The most widespread race of people is the white race, followed by the black race, then the yellow race throughout Asia.
The Mongoloid race, also known as the yellow race, is one of the three great human races spread throughout Central, East, North, and Southeast Asia. The term Mongoloid refers to people with physical traits found in Central Asia and the Mongolian ethnic group. Members of the Mongoloid race share various biological characteristics, the most common of which is short, black, and straight hair.

Japhet is the father of the Mongoloid race. Large populations of Mongoloid people are found mainly on the Asian continent, especially in the northern and eastern parts. But they also make up a large part of the population of Southeast Asian countries. In the Americas, the indigenous Amerindian population shares some traits of the Mongoloid race but is often considered a separate race.

Who are the sons of Japheth today?

Noah did everything the Lord commanded him. He was 600 years old when the flood came upon the earth. And Noah entered the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the waters of the flood. Of the clean beasts, the unclean beasts, the birds, and everything that creeps on the earth, they went into the ark to Noah. And Noah’s sons were saved and were the first people to bring heirs¹ to the new world.

1. Magog
2. Media
3. Javan
4. Gomer
5. Meshech
6. Tiras
7. Tubal

If He did not spare the old world but spared Noah, this preacher of righteousness, along with seven others, when He sent the flood upon earth of the wicked, it means that the Lord knows how to deliver the righteous from trial and preserve² the wicked from punishment on the day of judgment.

What’s the meaning of Japheth?

He blessed Noah and his sons: Increase and multiply and spread over the earth and multiply on it. But he no longer said as he did in the beginning to Adam and Eve: subdue and rule it. The world is no longer subject to man as the Word of God spoke to Adam and Eve in the beginning. So man has lost the dominion and subjection of the earth; he no longer submits, neither volcanoes, earthquakes, nor its position in space. Nor fruits were as before, nor cold, nor heat. And man, instead of mastering it, buries himself in it.

Japheth Bible, son of Noah, is also considered the progenitor of the Greeks and Medes. He symbolizes beauty. The word of God was always with Noah and his righteous family, and God made a new divine mandate and a new covenant.

Primary Takeaways

• Japheth was saved because of his father’s faith.
• God chose him as one of the first people on the new earth.
• Japheth was not very young when he entered the ship; he was about 100 years old.

Key Verse

“The sons of Japheth Bible; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. And the sons of Javan; Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided into their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.” 

Genesis 10:2-5 (NIV)

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