Usually means: Noah's son, ancestor of Europeans.
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  1. Japheth: Merriam-Webster
  2. Japheth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Japheth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Japheth: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Japheth: Vocabulary.com
  6. Japheth: Wordnik
  7. Japheth: Wiktionary
  8. Japheth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Japheth: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Japheth, japheth: Dictionary.com
  11. Japheth (disambiguation), Japheth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Japheth: Rhymezone
  13. japheth: FreeDictionary.org
  14. japheth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Japheth: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Japheth: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Japheth: Encyclopedia

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Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Japheth: Easton Bible
  2. Japheth: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Japheth)

noun:  (biblical) The third son of Noah, brother to Shem and Ham, who received a blessing from God with Shem, considered to be the ancestor of the Japhetic people(s) (associated approx. with Indo-Europeans).
noun:  (uncommon) A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.

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