Riphath
RIPHATH
A northern nation descended from a grandson of Japheth, Gen 10:3, called Diphath in 1Ch 1:6 . The name is traced in that of the Riphoean mountains, in Russia.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Riphath
(Heb. Riphath’, , perhaps spoken; Sept. v.r. ; Vulg. Riphath), the second son of Gomer and the brother of Ashkenaz and Togarmah (Gen 10:3). B.C. cir. 2450. The Hebrew text in 1Ch 1:6 gives the form Diphath (q.v.); but this arises out of a clerical error similar to that which gives the forms Rodanim and Hadad for Dodanim and Hadar (vers. 7:50; Gen 36:39). The name Riphath occurs only in the genealogical table, and hence there is little to guide us to the locality which it indicates. The name itself has been variously identified with that of the Rhipaean Mountains (Knobel); the river Rhebas, in Bithynia (Bochart); the Rhibii, a people living eastward of the Caspian Sea (Schulthess); and the Riphaeans the ancient name of the Paphlagonians (Joseph Ant. 1, 6, 1). This last view is certainly favored by the contiguity of Ashkenaz and Togarmah. The weight of opinion is, however, in favor of the Rhipaean Mountains, which Knobel (Volkert. p. 44) identifies etymologically and geographically with the Carpathian range in the northeast of Dacia. The attempt of that writer to identify Riphath with the Celts or Gauls is evidently based on the assumption that so important a race ought to be mentioned in the table, and that there is no other name to apply to them; but we have no evidence that the Gauls were for any lengthened period settled in the neighborhood of the Carpathian range. The Rhipaean Mountains themselves existed more in the imagination of the Greeks than in reality; and if the received etymology of that name (from , blasts) be correct, the coincidence in sound with Riphath is merely accidental, and no connection can be held to exist between the names. The later geographers, Ptolemy (3, 5, 15, 19) and others, placed the Rhipaean range where no range really exists, viz. about the elevated ground that separates the basins of the Euixine and Baltic seas. SEE ETHNOLOGY.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Riphath
a crusher, Gomer’s second son (Gen. 10:3), supposed to have been the ancestor of the Paphlagonians.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Riphath
Gomer’s second son (Gen 10:3). Paphlagonia (Josephus, Ant. 1:6, section 1). The Riphaean mountains in the remote N. to the E. of Tanais (“the Don”); the Carpathian range N.E. of Dacia.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Riphath
RIPHATH.One of the sons of Gomer (Gen 10:3). The parallel passage 1Ch 1:6, by a scribal error, reads Diphath.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Riphath
Son of Gomer, Gen 10:3. If from Raphah, the name means remedy.
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Riphath
rfath (, rphath): A son of Gomer, the eldest son of Japhet (Gen 10:3; 1Ch 1:6, where Massoretic Text and the Revised Version (British and American) read DIPHATH (which see)). Josephus (Ant., I, vi, 1) identifies the Ripheans with the Paphlagonians, through whose country on the Black Sea ran the river Rhebas (Pliny, NH, vi. 4).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Riphath
Riphath, a northern people descended from Gomer (Gen 10:3).
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Riphath
[Ri’phath]
Son of Gomer, a son of Japheth. Gen 10:3; 1Ch 1:6.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Riphath
H7384
A son of Gomer.
Gen 10:3; 1Ch 1:6
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Riphath
Ri’phath. (spoken). The second son of Gomer. Gen 10:3. The name may be identified with the Rhipaean mountains, that is, the Carpathian range in the northeast of Dacia.