Magog was one of the seven sons of Japheth mentioned in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible. It literally means "From-Gog" in Hebrew. Japheth (יֶפֶת / יָפֶת Enlarge, Standard Hebrew Yéfet / Yáfet, Tiberian Hebrew Yép̄eṯ / Yāp̄eṯ) is one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. ... This article is about Genesis, the first book of the Hebrew Bible. ... 11th century manuscript of the Hebrew Bible with Targum Hebrew Bible refers to the common portions of the Jewish and Christian canons. ... Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by 6 million people mainly in Israel, parts of the Palestinian territories, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. ...

Magog is often associated with apocalyptic traditions: see Gog for details. For other uses, see Apocalypse (disambiguation). ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Josephus identified the offspring of Magog as the Scythians, a name used in antiquity for peoples north of the Black Sea. Greeks called Scythia, Magogia. It has also been variously conjectured that Magog's offspring were the progenitors of the Slavic and/or Palaic peoples known to history. Josephus (c. ... Scythia was an area in Eurasia inhabited in ancient times by an Indo-Aryans known as the Scythians. ... Map of the Black Sea. ... The Slavic peoples are the most numerous ethnic and linguistic body of peoples in Europe. ... Palaic was one of the Anatolian languages, and as such a sister language of Hittite. ...

According to some Irish traditions, such as the Irish Chronicles, the Irish race are a composite including descendants of Magog. Baath (Boath), Jobhath, and Fathochta are the three sons of Magog. Partholón, Nemed, and Iobath are Magog's decendants. Baath Party of Iraq Baath son of Magog of Milesian tradition This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... In Irish mythology Partholón was the leader of the second group of people to settle in Ireland, the first to arrive after the biblical Flood. ... In Irish mythology, Nemed (holy or priveleged) son of Agnoman of Scythia was the leader of the third group of inhabitants of Ireland. ...