He was the older brother of Japheth and the ancestor of the tribes of Eber. The Bible says: "And their place of dwelling came to extend from Mesha as far as Sephar, the mountainous region of the East.". 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their . They have some descendants among the known It is situated on the coast, in the province of Hadramawt, and near to the district which adjoins that province on the east, called Esh- Shihr (or as M. Fresnel says it is pronounced in the modern Himyeritic, Shher). se'-far: Only in Genesis 10:30 cepharah, "toward Sephar"), as the eastern limit of the territory of the sons of Yoktan (Joktan). 5). points now unknown. MESHA TO SEPHAR - Real Location - YouTube border country, but is prob. This chart indicates how confidence in the identifications is changing over time. Wikipedia: Joktan and . a non-Heb. Neither is the same Hebrew word nor era as Mesha where Joktan lived. This word Sephar certainly commences in this progression as for one, it is a Hebrew reference to the Tree of Life especially among Kabbalists whom we do not embrace but the Hebrew is applicable none-the-less. Failing in this, he offered his firstborn as a burnt offering upon the wall. Now their territory extended from Mesha as one goes toward Sephar, to the hill country of the east. M. Fresnel gives almost all that is known of the present state of this old site in his Lettres sur I'Hist. Asiat. JOKTAN - JewishEncyclopedia.com The other son was named Joktan. Perhaps they do not actually believe the Bible. p. 248) says that it exports the best frankincense. (4) (mesha'; Masse): This appears to mark the western boundary of the land occupied by the descendants of Joktan (Genesis 10:30). It was the division between Peleg and his brother Joktan, as they went their . But, leaving this curious point, it remains to give what is known respecting Dhafari the seaport, or, as it will be more convenient to call it, after the usual pronunciation, Zafar. Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters.
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