Dictionaries :: Tubal

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Tubal:

(1.) The fifth son of Japheth (Gen 10:2).

(2.) A nation, probably descended from the son of Japheth. It is mentioned by Isaiah (Isa 66:19), along with Javan, and by Ezekiel (Eze 27:13), along with Meshech, among the traders with Tyre, also among the confederates of Gog (Eze 38:2,3; 39:1), and with Meshech among the nations which were to be destroyed (32:26). This nation was probably the Tiberini of the Greek historian Herodotus, a people of the Asiatic highland west of the Upper Euphrates, the southern range of the Caucasus, on the east of the Black Sea.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Tubal:

the earth; the world; confusion

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Tubal:

tu'-bal (tubhal, tubhal; Septuagint Thobel, Codex Alexandrinus in Eze 39:1, Thober): As the text stands, Tubal and Meshech are always coupled, except in Isa 66:19 (Massoretic Text) and Ps 120:5. In the former passage Tubal is yoked with Javan; in the latter Meshech occurs in 120:5 and Kedar in 120:6. In Ge 10:2 parallel, they are sons of Japheth. In Ezekiel (27:13) the two are mentioned as exporters of slaves and copper, as a warlike people of antiquity (32:26), in the army of Gog (38:2 ff; 39:1). Josephus identifies them with the Iberians and Cappadocians respectively; but they are most probably the Tibarenoi, and Moschoi, first mentioned in Herodotus iii.94 as belonging to the 19th satrapy of Darius, and again (vii.78) as furnishing a contingent to the host of Xerxes. Equally obvious is their identity with the Tabali and Muski of the Assyrian monuments, where the latter is mentioned as early as Tiglath-pileser I, and the former under Shalmaneser II; both are described as powerful military states. They appear together in Sargon's inscriptions; and during this entire period their territory must have extended much farther South and West than in Greek-Roman times. They are held (Winckler and Jeremias) to have been remnants of the old Hittite population which were gradually driven (probably by the Cimmerian invasion) to the mountainous district Southeast of the Black Sea.

Written by Horace J. Wolf

Nave's Topical Bible

Tubal: Son of Japheth

Gen 10:2; 1Ch 1:5

Tubal: Descendants Of

Become a nation,

Isa 66:19; Eze 27:13; 32:26; 38:2, 3; 39:1.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Tubal:

is reckoned with Javan and Meshech among the sons of Japheth (Genesis 10:2; 1 Chronicles 1:5). The three are again associated in the enumeration of the sources of the wealth of Tyre (Ezekiel 27:13). Tubal and Javan (Isaiah 66:19) Meshech and Tubal (Ezekiel 32:26; 38:2-3; 39:1) are nations of the north (Ezekiel 38:15; 39:2). Josephus identified the descendants of Tubal with the Iberians, that is, the inhabitants of a tract of country between the Caspian and Euxine Seas, which nearly corresponded to the modern Georgia.