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    Lud (Hebrew: לוּד Lūḏ) was a son of Shem and grandson of Noah, according to Genesis 10 (the "Table of Nations"). The descendants of Lud are usually, following...
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    1:4). The children of Shem were Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram, in addition to unnamed daughters. Abraham, the patriarch of Jews, Christians, and...
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  • buried at Ludgate Lud, son of Shem, a grandson of Noah Lludd Llaw Eraint, a mythical Welsh figure cognate with king Nuada Airgetlám Lud Fiser (1908–1990)...
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  • Ludim (category Book of Jeremiah)
    the inhabitants of Tunis. These Ludim should not be confused with another group who were said to descend from Lud, son of Shem, son of Noah. Ludim is sometimes...
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  • 4:9) is said to be one of the sons of Shem, the son of Noah. The name is also used (as in Akkadian) for the ancient country of Elam in what is now southern...
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    the dwelling of Shem; for to Shem and to his sons did it come by their lot. Cursed art thou, and cursed shalt thou be beyond all the sons of Noah, by the...
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  • son of Shem, according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 of the Hebrew Bible, and the father of Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash or Meshech. The Book of Chronicles...
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    Josephus (Antiquities 1.6.4.), Lud was the forebear of the Lydians. The Asatir describes the descendants of two of the sons of Shem, viz. Laud (Ld) and Aram...
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    Lydia (redirect from Kingdom of Lydia)
    Book of Jeremiah (46.9), has been similarly considered, beginning with Flavius Josephus, to be derived from Lud son of Shem; however, Hippolytus of Rome...
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    the dwelling of Shem; for to Shem and to his sons did it come by their lot. Cursed art thou, and cursed shalt thou be beyond all the sons of Noah, by the...
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    Arpachshad (category Shem)
    Noah's eldest son Shem and ending with Terah. According to the text, Arpachshad's brothers were Elam, Asshur, Lud and Aram. Arpachshad's son is called Selah...
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    Japheth (category Children of Noah)
    Bible as one of the three sons of Noah, saved from the Flood through the Ark. In the Book of Genesis, they are always in the order "Shem, Ham, and Japheth"...
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    Japhetites (category Historical definitions of race)
    Cethin, Tudant." Sons of Gomer: Thelez, Lud, Deberlet. Sons of Magog: Cesse, Thipha, Pharuta, Ammiel, Phimei, Goloza, Samanach. Sons of Duden: Sallus, Phelucta...
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    Meshech (category Book of Genesis people)
    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 Chronicles 1:17 (corresponding...
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  • line of Noah's son Shem, through Abraham to Jacob and his sons. Dashed lines are marriage connections. Not all individuals in this portion of the Bible are...
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  • Ashur (Bible) (category Shem)
    ʾAššūr) was the second son of Shem, the son of Noah. Ashur's brothers were Elam, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. Prior to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls...
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  • Bible, was the oldest son of Ham and a grandson of Noah. He was the brother of Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan. Cush was the father of Nimrod. Cush is traditionally...
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    Joktan. Abimael, son of Joktan. Sheba, son of Joktan. Ophir, son of Joktan. Havilah, son of Joktan. Jobab, son of Joktan. Lud: The kingdom of Lydia in eastern...
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  • tree[dubious – discuss] for the descendants of the line of Noah's son Shem, through Abraham to Jacob and his sons. Dashed lines are marriage connections....
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    Semitic people (category Shem)
    members of the Göttingen school of history, this biblical terminology for race was derived from Shem (Hebrew: שֵׁם), one of the three sons of Noah in...
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    Madai (category Book of Genesis people)
    Mannai. According to the Book of Jubilees (10:35-36), Madai had married a daughter of Shem, and preferred to live among Shem's descendants, rather than dwell...
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  • Mizraim (redirect from Mizraim (son of Ham))
    Genesis 10, Mizraim son of Ham was the younger brother of Cush and elder brother of Phut whose families together made up the Hamite branch of Noah's descendants...
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    Javan (category Book of Genesis people)
    Modern: Yavan, Tiberian: Yāwān) was the fourth son of Noah's son Japheth according to the "Generations of Noah" (Book of Genesis, chapter 10) in the Hebrew Bible...
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  • Put (biblical figure) (category Children of Ham (son of Noah))
    Pūṭ; Septuagint Greek Φουδ Phoud) is the third son of Ham (one of the sons of Noah), in the biblical Table of Nations (Genesis 10:6; cf. 1 Chronicles 1:8)...
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    Ashkenaz (category Book of Genesis people)
    the Hebrew Bible is one of the descendants of Noah. Ashkenaz is the first son of Gomer, and a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations. In rabbinic literature...
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    Magog (Bible) (category Book of Genesis people)
    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...
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    Selah (biblical figure) (category Book of Genesis people)
    for his son is the original eponym of the Hebrew people, from the root ‘abar (עבר‎, עָבַר), "to cross over". The Gospel of Luke and Book of Jubilees...
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  • Gomer (category Book of Genesis people)
    romanized: Gamér) was the eldest son of Japheth (and of the Japhetic line), and father of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah, according to the "Table of Nations" in the Hebrew...
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  • Tubal (category Book of Genesis people)
    (Hebrew: תֻבָל, Ṯuḇāl), in Genesis 10 (the "Table of Nations"), was the name of a son of Japheth, son of Noah. Modern scholarship has identified him with...
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  • Tiras (category Book of Genesis people)
    according to the Book of Genesis (Genesis 10) and 1 Chronicles, the seventh and youngest son of Japheth in the Hebrew Bible. A brother of biblical Javan (associated...
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