Dictionaries :: Riphath

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Riphath:

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

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Riphath:

remedy; medicine; release; pardon

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Riphath:

ri'-fath (riphath): A son of Gomer, the eldest son of Japhet (Ge 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).

Nave's Topical Bible

Riphath: A Son of Gomer

Gen 10:3; 1Ch 1:6

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Riphath:

(spoken) the second son of Gomer (Genesis 10:3). The name may be identified with the Rhipaean mountains, i.e. the Carpathian range in the northeast of Dacia.