A northern nation descended from a grandson of Japheth, Ge 10:3, called Diphath in 1Ch 1:6. The name is traced in that of the Riphoean mountains, in Russia.

a crusher, Gomer's second son (Ge 10:3), supposed to have been the ancestor of the Paphlagonians.

Gomer's second son (Ge 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.

One of the sons of Gomer (Ge 10:3). The parallel passage 1Ch 1:6, by a scribal error, reads Diphath.

Ri'phath

Son of Gomer, a son of Japheth. Ge 10:3; 1Ch 1:6.

Ri'phath

(spoken), the second son of Gomer.

Ge 10:3

The name may be identified with the Rhipaean mountains, i.e. the Carpathian range in the northeast of Dacia.