Post by mosheli on Apr 3, 2020 22:26:36 GMT -8
Not sure if this is a specifically messianic topic but has anyone solved the table of 70/72 nations of B'reshit/Genesis 10 as to which nation of the world or history each nation of B'reshit/Genesis 10 matches, or vice-versa which nation of B'reshit/Genesis 10 each nation of the world/history matches? (Eg who does China match in the table of nations of B'reshit/Genesis 10, and the same for other nations.) Part of this topic includes what the meanings of the names in Genesis 10 are. Below are the meanings of the names of the Japhethites that I have collected. I'm wondering if you can help confirm or correct or improve the meanings of the names, and help identify the nations.
Japheth (from patha(c)h, meaning "wonder" / "enlarge/entice/persuade [thought/intellect]" / "make room / enlarge/beautify" / "the extender / extend/enlarge/opened/expand" / "opened up / made spacious / liberty/freedom" / "entice/deceive", "intellectual activity", "prosper", "beauty", "fair/white"?)
Gomer (meaning "complete", "to bring to an end", "standing for the-whole/all-the family")
Magog (meaning "an appellative name", or, "prefix" / "place/land/region of/from" + roof/ceiling/mountain/God" / "out of (&) to increase" / "the roof of something rising")
Madai (meaning "middle(land)" "from what is sufficient" "measure/judging/habit/covering")
Javan (meaning "clay" / "wine (effervesce)" / ["south/right"?])
Tubal (meaning "you shall/will be b(r)ought of, producer/production" / "draw out" / "tumult" / "to increase and flow as a mighty river")
Meshech (meaning "price/precious / economy" / "a trail (of seed), a drawing out/up, tall / to draw/pull/direct/lead" / "aquisition in the process of scattering seeds and those seeds taking root and then multiplying and spreading" / "guest"? / "touch/move")
Tiras (meaning "desire/longing" / "breaking", "terrifying, fracture")
Ashkenaz/Ashkuz (meaning "fire that spreads / fire as scattered / a man as sprinkled, sprinkled with fire")
Riphath/Diphath (meaning "spoken" / "poundings/shakings" / "health/remedy/release/pardon")
Togarmah (meaning ("house of" +) "you will break her" / "gnaw a bone" / "rugged/bony" / "to be poured out everywhere")
Elishah (meaning "god (of)" + "the coming-one / salvation/saves/help" / "God is (firm) / God owns")
Tarshish (from rasasu/rss, meaning "mine, (to) smelt, smelting plant, metal refinery, refinery, furnace", "a type of (semi) precious gemstone/yellow jasper/beryl/chrysolite / topaz, amber"; "a destruction that breaks into pieces of white, ie white volcanic ash rock or pumice", "solid/rocky, the region/place of the stone", "hard; hardness; severity; breaking; broken; subdued; subjected", "gravitational energy; precipitant force")
Kittim (meaning "violent peltings" / "bruisers/break" / "invaders" / "westerners")
Dodanim (meaning "2 breast/cauldron judgments" / "passion/friendship/breast/judge" / "leaders")