Bible Person

Riphath

Meaning: remedy; medicine; release; pardon · Male · 2 cross references

Riphath is one of Gomer's sons in the table of nations. The page uses a person-style entry for an ancestral name that stands behind a later people-group. First appears in Gen 10:3.1

AI summary: Riphath matters because his cross references place him in the Japhethite branch of Genesis' account of the nations, extending the biblical map into distant peoples beyond Israel's immediate horizon. Even without a narrative episode, the entry contributes to Scripture's ordered memory of the world. Taken together, the material presents Riphath as an ancestral marker in the genealogy of the nations.1

Central Figure

Riphath

Meaning: remedy; medicine; release; pardon

A crusher, Gomer’s second son (Gen.