remedy; medicine; release; pardon
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
RIPHATH.One of the sons of Gomer (Gen_10:3). The parallel passage 1Ch_1:6, by a scribal error, reads Diphath.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Gomer's second son (Gen_10:3). Paphlagonia (Josephus, Ant. 1:6, section 1). The Riphaean mountains in the remote N. to the E. of Tanais ("the Don"); the Carpathian range N.E. of Dacia.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ri'phath. (spoken). The second son of Gomer. Gen_10:3. The name may be identified with the Rhipaean mountains, that is, the Carpathian range in the northeast of Dacia.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
rı̄?fath (ריפת, rı̄phath): A son of Gomer, the eldest son of Japhet (Gen_10:3; 1Ch_1:6, where Massoretic Text and the Revised Version (British and American) read DIPHATH (which see)). Josephus (Ant., I, vi, 1) identifies the Ripheans with the Paphlagonians, through whose country on the Black Sea ran the river ?Rhebas? (Pliny, NH, vi. 4).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Ri?phath, a northern people descended from Gomer (Gen_10:3).
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Riphath
(Heb. Riphath', רַיפִת, perhaps spoken; Sept. ῾Ριφάθ v.r. ῾Ριφαε; Vulg. Riphath), the second son of Gomer and the brother of Ashkenaz and Togarmah (Gen_10:3). B.C. cir. 2450. The Hebrew text in 1Ch_1:6 gives the form Diphath (q.v.); but this arises out of a clerical error similar to that which gives the forms Rodanim and Hadad for Dodanim and Hadar (vers. 7:50; Gen_36:39). The name Riphath occurs only in the genealogical table, and hence there is little to guide us to the locality which it indicates. The name itself has been variously identified with that of the Rhipaean Mountains (Knobel); the river Rhebas, in Bithynia (Bochart); the Rhibii, a people living eastward of the Caspian Sea (Schulthess); and the Riphaeans the ancient name of the Paphlagonians (Joseph Ant. 1, 6, 1). This last view is certainly favored by the contiguity of Ashkenaz and Togarmah. The weight of opinion is, however, in favor of the Rhipaean Mountains, which Knobel (Volkert. p. 44) identifies etymologically and geographically with the Carpathian range in the northeast of Dacia. The attempt of that writer to identify Riphath with the Celts or Gauls is evidently based on the assumption that so important a race ought to be mentioned in the table, and that there is no other name to apply to them; but we have no evidence that the Gauls were for any lengthened period settled in the neighborhood of the Carpathian range. The Rhipaean Mountains themselves existed more in the imagination of the Greeks than in reality; and if the received etymology of that name (from ῥιπαί, blasts) be correct, the coincidence in sound with Riphath is merely accidental, and no connection can be held to exist between the names. The later geographers, Ptolemy (3, 5, § 15, 19) and others, placed the Rhipaean range where no range really exists, viz. about the elevated ground that separates the basins of the Euixine and Baltic seas. SEE ETHNOLOGY.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.