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The form "Gog and Magog" may have emerged as shorthand for "Gog and/of the land of Magog", based on their usage in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. [11] An example of this combined form in Hebrew ( Gog u-Magog ) has been found, but its context is unclear, being preserved only in a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls .
Magog (Bible) Magog ( / ˈmeɪɡɒɡ /; Hebrew: מָגוֹג, romanized : Māgōg, Tiberian: [mɔˈɣoɣ]; Ancient Greek: Μαγώγ, romanized : Magṓg) is the second of the seven sons of Japheth mentioned in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 . The origin of the term is not clear, this name indicates either a person, or a tribe, or a ...
Ezekiel 38 is the thirty-eighth chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet / priest Ezekiel, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This and the following chapter form a section dealing with "Gog, of the land of Magog".
Japhetites. This T and O map, from the first printed version of Isidore 's Etymologiae ( Augsburg 1472), identifies the three known continents ( Asia, Europe, and Africa) as respectively populated by descendants of Sem ( Shem ), Iafeth ( Japheth ), and Cham ( Ham ). The term Japhetites (sometimes spelled Japhethites; in adjective form Japhetic ...
Meshech. The World as known to the Hebrews. This 1854 map [ 1] locates Meshech together with Gog and Magog, roughly in the southern Caucasus. In the Bible, Meshech or Mosoch ( Hebrew: מֶשֶׁך Mešeḵ "price" or "precious") is named as a son of Japheth in Genesis 10:2 and 1 Chronicles 1:5. Another Meshech is named as a son of Shem in 1 ...
I. Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal) [ 21][ 22][ 23] India [ 24] Israel. Italy (Italy generally [ 25] and the cities of Syracuse [ 26] and Rome specifically [ 27]) Illyricum (territories near the Adriatic from modern day Slovenia to Albania) [ 28]
Gates of Alexander. Dhu al-Qarnayn building a wall with the help of jinn to keep away Gog and Magog. Persian miniature from a book of Falnama copied for the Safavid Shah Tahmasp I ( r. 1524–1576 ), currently preserved in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. The Gates of Alexander, also known as the Caspian Gates, are one of several mountain ...
The Hereford Mappa Mundi ( Latin: mappa mundi) is the largest medieval map still known to exist, depicting the known world. It is a religious rather than literal depiction, featuring heaven, hell and the path to salvation. Dating from ca. 1300, the map is drawn in a form deriving from the T and O pattern. It is displayed at Hereford Cathedral ...