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ASHKENAZ RIPHATH TOGARMAH ELISHA TARSHISH KITTIM DODANIM
•JAPHIA splendid. (1.) The king of Lachish, who joined in the confederacy against Joshua (Joshua 10:3), and was defeated and slain. In one of the Amarna tablets he speaks of himself as king of Gezer. Called also Horam (Joshua 10:33).
(2.) One of the sons of David (2 Samuel 5:15), born in Jerusalem.
(3.) A town in the southern boundary of Zebulum (Joshua 19:12); now Yafa, 2 miles south-west of Nazareth.
•JAPHO beauty, a sea-port in Dan (Joshua 19:46); called Joppa (q.v.) in 2 Chronicles 2:16; Ezra 3:7; Jonah 1:3; and in New Testament.
•JARED descent. (1.) The fourth antediluvian patriarch in descent from Seth (Genesis 5:15-20; Luke 3:37), the father of Enoch; called Jered in 1 Chronicles 1:2.
(2.) A son of Ezra probably (1 Chronicles 4:18).
•JARIB an adversary. (1.) A son of Simeon (1 Chronicles 4:24).
(2.) One of the chiefs sent by Ezra to bring up the priests to Jerusalem (Ezra 8:16).
(3.) Ezra 10:18.