Riphath:
a crusher, Gomer's second son (Gen 10:3), supposed to have been the ancestor of the Paphlagonians.
Riphath:
remedy; medicine; release; pardon
Riphath:
ri'-fath (riphath): A son of Gomer, the eldest son of Japhet (Ge 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).
Riphath:
(spoken) the second son of Gomer (Genesis 10:3). The name may be identified with the Rhipaean mountains, i.e. the Carpathian range in the northeast of Dacia.
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