Bible Person
Male · 2 cross references
Tiras is the youngest son of Japheth 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 10:2.1
AI summary: Tiras matters because his cross references place him within the Japhethite branch of Genesis' account of the nations, broadening the biblical horizon into distant peoples beyond Israel's immediate world. Even without a narrative episode, the entry contributes to Scripture's ordered memory of the post-flood human family. Taken together, the material presents Tiras as an ancestral marker in the genealogy of the nations.1
Central Figure
Tiras
The youngest of the sons of Japheth (Gen.
The youngest of the sons of Japheth (Gen. 10:2; 1 Chr. 1:5). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person 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.