Bible Location
Meaning: covering; roof; dissolving · 3 cross references · Modern-day map available
Magog is a northern people or land associated especially with end-time opposition in prophetic texts. It is important because it becomes part of the Bible's language for remote hostile forces gathered against God's people. First appears in Ezek 38:2.1
Place meaning
covering; roof; dissolving
Coordinates
46.00, 47.00
First appears
Ezek 38:2
AI summary: Magog matters because it functions more symbolically as the biblical horizon widens. In the table of nations it belongs to the distant descendants of Japheth, while later prophetic usage turns it into part of a threatening northern confederation. The cross references present Magog as a far-off people whose name became a vehicle for eschatological opposition.1
Place meaning
covering; roof; dissolving
Latitude
46.00
Longitude
47.00
Bible references
3
Region of Gog, the second of the “sons” of Japheth (Gen. 10:2; 1 Chr. 1:5). In Ezekiel (38:2; 39:6) it is the name of a nation, probably some Scythian or Tartar tribe descended from Japheth. They are described as skilled horsemen, and expert in the use of the bow. The Latin father Jerome says that this word denotes “Scythian nations, fierce and innumerable, who live beyond the Caucasus and the Lake Maeotis, and near the Caspian Sea, and spread out even onward to India.” Perhaps the name “represents the Assyrian Mat Gugi, or ‘country of Gugu,’ the Gyges of the Greeks” (Sayce’s Races, etc.). 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.