Magog (Bible)

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Magog (Bible)

Magog, Hebrew

Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
????, Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
?a???, [ ma'gog ], is the second of the seven sons of Japheth

Japheth

Japheth is one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. In Arabic language citations, his name is normally given as Yafeth ibn Nuh ....
mentioned in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10. It may represent Hebrew for "from Gog

Gog

Gog may refer to:* Gog of the land of Magog, the Chief prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal from the book of Ezekiel, chapters 38 & 39* Gog , a 1954 science fiction film by Herbert L....
", though this is far from certain.

Magog is often associated with apocalyptic traditions, mainly in connection with Ezekiel 38 and 39

War of Ezekiel 38-39

In the Tanakh or Old Testament, the Hebrew Prophet Ezekiel in the Book of Ezekiel chapters Wikisource:Ezekiel speaks of a specific invasion carried out by a coalition of nations against the Land of Israel....
which mentions "Gog

Gog

Magog

Magog may refer to:* Magog , a grandson of Noah in the Old Testament* Gog and Magog, a Biblical pair also known as Yajooj and Majooj* Magog, Quebec, a town in southern Quebec, Canada...
, prince of Rosh

Rosh

Rosh may refer to:*List of minor Biblical figures#Rosh, a character mentioned in the Book of Genesis and a nation listed in Ezekiel 38:2,3; 39:1....
, Meshech

Meshech

In the Bible, Meshech, Hebrew language, Help:IPA pronunciation key], "price" or "precious", literally "a drawing up ", is named as a son of Japheth in Genesis 10:2 and 1 Chronicles 1:5....
and Tubal

Tubal

Tubal, ???? Help:IPA pronunciation key [ t?u'bal ] or ??? [ tu'bal ], "Thou shalt be brought", in Book of Genesis 10 , was the name of a son of Japheth, son of Noah....
"; on the basis of this mention, "Gog and Magog

Gog and Magog

The tradition of Gog and Magog begins in the Bible with the reference to Magog , son of Japheth, in the Book of Genesis and continues in cryptic prophecies in the Book of Ezekiel which are echoed in the Book of Revelation and in the Qur'an....
" over time became associated with each other as a pair.

Josephus

Josephus

Josephus , also known as Yosef Ben Matityahu and, after he became a Roman citizenship, as Titus Flavius Josephus, was a first-century Jewish historian and apologist of priestly and royal ancestry who survived and recorded the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70....
identified the offspring of Magog as the Scythians, a name used in antiquity for peoples north of the Black Sea

Black Sea

The Black Sea is an inland sea sea bounded by southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Anatolia and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Seas and various straits....
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Magog, Hebrew

Hebrew language

Greek language

Japheth

Gog

War of Ezekiel 38-39

Gog

Magog

Rosh

Rosh may refer to:*List of minor Biblical figures#Rosh, a character mentioned in the Book of Genesis and a nation listed in Ezekiel 38:2,3; 39:1....
, Meshech

Meshech

Tubal

Gog and Magog

Josephus

Black Sea

Isidore of Seville

Saint Isidore of Seville was Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and has the reputation of being one of the greatest scholars of the early Middle Ages....
, writing some centuries later, adds that he is also considered ancestor of the Goths, but notes that this is "because of the similarity of the last syllable" (Etymologiae
Etymologiae

Etymologiae is an encyclopedia compiled byIsidore of Seville towards the end of his life, at the urging of his friend Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa, to whom Isidore, at the end of his life, sent his codex inemendatus , which seems to have begun circulating before Braulio was able to revise it, and issue it, with a dedication to t...
, IX, 89). Johannes Magnus

Johannes Magnus

Johannes Magnus was born March 19, 1488 in Link?ping, Sweden and died March 22, 1544 in Rome. He was the last Catholic Archbishop in Sweden, and also a theologian, genealogist, and historian....
(1488-1544) stated that Magog's sons were Sven and Gethar, who became the ancestors of the Swedes and the Goths. Queen Christina of Sweden

Christina of Sweden

Christina , later known as Christina Alexandra and sometimes Countess Dohna, was Monarch of Sweden of Sweden from 1632 to 1654. She was the only surviving legitimate child of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his wife Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg....
reckoned herself as number 249 in a list of kings going back to Magog.

Daniel Juslenius

Daniel Juslenius

Daniel Juslenius was a Finland writer and Fennoman. He was a professor of Hebrew, Greek language and theology at the Academy of Turku.Juslenius is considered Finland first Fennoman and a firm advocate of Finnishness....
(1676-1752) derived the roots of the Finns from Magog, whose descendants he said migrated to Finland.

It has also been variously conjectured that Magog's offspring were the progenitors of the Slavic peoples

Slavic peoples

The Slavic Peoples are a linguistic branch of Indo-European peoples, living mainly in eastern Europe. From the early 6th century they spread from their original homeland to inhabit most of eastern Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Balkans....
known to history.

According to several mediaeval Irish

Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
chronicles, most notably the Auraicept na n-Éces
Auraicept na n-Éces

The Auraicept na n-?ces is claimed as a 7th century work of Irish grammarians, written by a scholar named Longarad.The core of the text could indeed date to the mid-7th century, but much material will have been added over the 500 years preceding the text as recorded in the earliest surviving copy ...
and Lebor Gabála Érenn
Lebor Gabála Érenn

Lebor Gab?la ?renn is the Irish language title of a loose collection of poems and prose narratives recounting the mythical origins and history of the Irish race from the creation of the world down to the Middle Ages....
, the Irish race are a composite including descendants of Japheth's son Magog from "Scythia". Baath (Boath), Jobhath, and Fathochta are the three sons of Magog. Partholón

Partholón

In Irish mythology Parthol?n was the leader of the second group of people to settle in Ireland, supposedly first to arrive after the biblical Deluge ....
, Nemed

Nemed

In Irish mythology, Nemed son of Agnoman of Scythia was the leader of the third group of inhabitants of Ireland. They arrived in 24th century BC according to the chronology of the Annals of the Four Masters, 18th century BC according to Seathr?n C?itinn's chronology....
, Iobath, and Fenius Farsa

Fenius Farsa

Fenius Farsa was a legendary king of Scythia who shows up in many legends of Irish folklore. According to some traditions, he was the creator of the Ogham alphabet and the Gaelic language....
are among Magog's descendants. Magog was also supposed to have had a grandson called Heber

Heber

Heber may be:...
, whose offspring spread throughout the Mediterranean.

There is also a mediaeval Hungarian

Hungarian people

Hungarians are an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. There are around 10 million Magyars in Hungary . Hungarians were the main inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary that existed through most of the second millennium....
legend that says the Huns

Huns

The Huns were a confederation of Central Asian Eurasian nomads or semi-nomads, who had established an empire in Eurasia. The Huns may have stimulated the Migration Period, a contributing factor in the collapse of the Roman Empire....
, as well as the Magyars, are descended from twin brothers named Hunor and Magor

Hunor and Magor

Hunor and Magor were, according to a famous Hungarian mythology, the ancestors of the Huns and the Magyars. The myth was promoted by the Medieval historian Simon of K?za in his Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum ....
respectively, who lived by the sea of Azov

Azov

Azov is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Rostov Oblast, Russia, situated on the Don River, Russia just sixteen kilometers from the Sea of Azov, which derives its name from the town....
in the years after the flood, and took wives from the Alans

Alans

The Alans or Alani were a group among the Sarmatians people, Eurasian nomads of the 1st millennium AD who spoke an Eastern Iranian language which derived from Scytho-Sarmatian language and which in turn evolved into modern Ossetian language....
. The version of this legend in the 14th century Chronicon Pictum
Chronicon Pictum

The Illuminated Chronicle is a medieval illustrated chronicle from the Kingdom of Hungary from the fourteenth century. It represents the international artistic style of the royal courts in the court of Louis I of Hungary....
equates this Magor with Magog, son of Japheth.

Magog (Bible)

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