A name from Scripture
Japheth
JAY-feth
Meaning
Enlarged; May God enlarge; Beauty
Hebrew origin · Boy · First in Genesis
What it points to
Japheth — 'enlarged' — teaches that God's blessings expand across generations. Those who honor their fathers and walk in righteousness receive an ever-widening inheritance.
Verses · King James Version
“God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.”
Genesis 9:27
“And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.”
Genesis 9:23