Reference: Meshech
Easton
drawing out, the sixth son of Japheth (Ge 10:2), the founder of a tribe (1Ch 1:5; Eze 27:13; 38:2-3). They were in all probability the Moschi, a people inhabiting the Moschian Mountains, between the Black and the Caspian Seas. In Ps 120:5 the name occurs as simply a synonym for foreigners or barbarians. "During the ascendency of the Babylonians and Persians in Western Asia, the Moschi were subdued; but it seems probable that a large number of them crossed the Caucasus range and spread over the northern steppes, mingling with the Scythians. There they became known as Muscovs, and gave that name to the Russian nation and its ancient capital by which they are still generally known throughout the East"
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Fausets
(See MESECH.)
Hastings
1. The name of a people of Asia Minor mentioned after Tubal as among the sons of Japbeth (Ge 10:2). These two peoples, possibly kindred, appear almost always in conjunction in OT; so even in Isa 66:18, where read 'Meshech' instead of 'that draw the bow' (the word for 'bow' being a supplementary gloss). In Ps 12:6 Meshech and Kedar appear as types of barbarous and warlike people, just as Meshech and Tubal are represented in Eze 32:28; 38:2; 39:1. In the Assyrian annals the Tabal
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Morish
Mesh'ech
1. Son of Japheth, and his descendants. Ge 10:2; 1Ch 1:5; Eze 27:13; 32:26; 38:2-3; 39:1. Probably the progenitors of the Moschi and Muscovites.
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Watsons
MESHECH, COUNTRY OF. Meshech was the sixth son of Japheth, and is generally mentioned in conjunction with his brother Tubal; and both were first seated in the north-eastern angle of Asia Minor, from the shores of the Euxine, along to the south of Caucasus; where were the Montes Moschisi, and where, in after times, were the Iberi, Tibareni, and Moschi; near to whom also, or mingled with them, were the Chalybes, who, it is probable, derived their Grecian appellation from the general occupation of the families of Tubal and Meshech, as workers in brass and iron, as the inhabitants of the same countries have been in all ages, for the supply of Tyre, Persia, Greece, and Armenia. There appears also to have been in the same neighbourhood, namely, in Armenia, a river and country termed Rosh: for so, Bochart says, the river Araxes is called by the Arabs; and that there was a people in the adjoining country called Rhossi. That passage in Ezekiel, 38, also, which in our Bibles is rendered "the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal," is, in the Septuagint, "the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal." These Rossi and Moschi, who were neighbours in Asia, dispersed their colonies jointly over the vast empire of Russia; and preserve their names still in those of Russians and Muscovites.