Bible Dictionary: Tubal

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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Tubal

the earth; the world; confusion

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Tubal

is reckoned with Javan and Meshech among the sons of Japheth. (Genesis 10:2; 1 Chronicles 1:5) The three are again associated in the enumeration of the sources of the wealth of Tyre. (Ezekiel 27:13) Tubal and Javan, (Isaiah 68:19) Meshech and Tubal, (Ezekiel 32:26; 38:2,3; 39:1) are nations of the north. (Ezekiel 38:15; 39:2) Josephus identified the descendants of Tubal with the Iberians, that is, the inhabitants of a tract of country between the Caspian and Euxine Seas, which nearly corresponded to the modern Georgia.

ATS Bible Dictionary

Tubal

A Son of Japheth, Genesis 10:2; supposed to have been the originator of the Tybareni, who occupied the northeastern part of Asia Minor. They were a warlike people, and brought slaves and copper vessels to the market of Tyre, Isaiah 66:19; Ezekiel 27:13; 32:26; 38:2; 39:1.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(1.) The fifth son of Japheth (Genesis 10:2).

(2.) A nation, probably descended from the son of Japheth. It is mentioned by Isaiah (66:19), along with Javan, and by Ezekiel (27:13), along with Meshech, among the traders with Tyre, also among the confederates of Gog (Ezek. 38:2, 3; 39:1), and with Meshech among the nations which were to be destroyed (32:26). This nation was probably the Tiberini of the Greek historian Herodotus, a people of the Asiatic highland west of the Upper Euphrates, the southern range of the Caucasus, on the east of the Black Sea.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(a.) Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

TUBAL

tu'-bal (tubhal, tubhal; Septuagint Thobel, Codex Alexandrinus in Ezekiel 39:1, Thober): As the text stands, Tubal and Meshech are always coupled, except in Isaiah 66:19 (Massoretic Text) and Psalm 120:5. In the former passage Tubal is yoked with Javan; in the latter Meshech occurs in 120:5 and Kedar in 120:6. In Genesis 10:2 parallel, they are sons of Japheth. In Ezekiel (27:13) the two are mentioned as exporters of slaves and copper, as a warlike people of antiquity (32:26), in the army of Gog (38:2;; 39:1). Josephus identifies them with the Iberians and Cappadocians respectively; but they are most probably the Tibarenoi, and Moschoi, first mentioned in Herodotus iii.94 as belonging to the 19th satrapy of Darius, and again (vii.78) as furnishing a contingent to the host of Xerxes. Equally obvious is their identity with the Tabali and Muski of the Assyrian monuments, where the latter is mentioned as early as Tiglath-pileser I, and the former under Shalmaneser II; both are described as powerful military states. They appear together in Sargon's inscriptions; and during this entire period their territory must have extended much farther South and West than in Greek-Roman times. They are held (Winckler and Jeremias) to have been remnants of the old Hittite population which were gradually driven (probably by the Cimmerian invasion) to the mountainous district Southeast of the Black Sea.

Horace J. Wolf

Strong's Hebrew

8422. Tubal -- a son of Japheth, also his desc. and their land
Tubal or Tubal. 8421, 8422. Tubal or Tubal. 8423 . a son of Japheth,
also his desc. and their land. Transliteration: Tubal or ...
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8423. Tubal Qayin -- a son of Lamech
Tubal Qayin. 8422, 8423. Tubal Qayin. 8424 . a son of Lamech. Transliteration:
Tubal Qayin Phonetic Spelling: (too-bal' kah'-yin) Short Definition: Tubal-cain ...
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5279a. Naamah -- a sister of Tubal-cain, also an Ammonitess
... 5279, 5279a. Naamah. 5279b . a sister of Tubal-cain, also an Ammonitess.
Transliteration: Naamah Short Definition: Naamah. Word ...
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5279. Na'amah -- a sister of Tubal-cain, also an Ammonitess
... Na'amah. 5279a . a sister of Tubal-cain, also an Ammonitess. Transliteration:
Na'amah Phonetic Spelling: (nah-am-aw') Short Definition: Naamah. Naamah ...
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8424. tugah -- grief
... Definition: grief. Word Origin from yagah Definition grief NASB Word Usage
grief (3), sorrow (1). Tubal-cain. From yagah; depression ...
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Library

Chapter x
... 2. The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech
and Tiras. ... "Tubal" is to be assigned to the eastern part of Asia Minor. ...
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Cain's Family and their Inventions.
... At that time there was made a beginning of polygamy, and also of music.
For Lamech had three sons: Jabal, Jubal, Tubal. And Jabal ...
/.../theophilus/theophilus to autolycus/chapter xxx cains family and their.htm

Of the Two Fathers and Leaders who Sprang from one Progenitor.
... And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass
and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah." [823] Here terminate all ...
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The Life of Adam
... Of Zilla he begat Tubal-cain, which found first the craft of smithery and working
of iron, and made things for war, and sculptures and gravings in metal to the ...
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The Nations of the North-East
... East of them came the Meshech and Tubal of the Bible as well as the kingdom
of Comagene, of which we often hear in the Assyrian texts. ...
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Stedfastness in the Old Paths.
... may build our houses, and buy and sell and get gain; how we may cross the sea in
ships; how we may make "fine linen for the merchant," or, like Tubal-Cain, be ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol vii/sermon xviii stedfastness in the.htm

Ezekiel's Discourse
... wares. Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers: they traded
the persons of men and vessels of brass for thy merchandise. ...
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Introduction
... Wicked Prince of Israel" (21:25), and again under the figure of the "Prince of Tyre"
(28:2-10), and also as "the chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal" (38:2 ...
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The Seventh (And Last) vision "On Earth"
... xxxix.17-22, where the cry is made concerning this or a subsequent [402] period,
when the Prince of Rosh (Russia) and Meshech (Moscow) and Tubal (Tobolsk) will ...
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Concerning the Posterity of Adam, and the Ten Generations from Him ...
... But Tubal, one of his children by the other wife, exceeded all men in strength,
and was very expert and famous in martial performances. ...
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Thesaurus

Tubal (9 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. (a.) Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or
pertaining to one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy. Int. ...TUBAL. ...
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Tubal-cain (1 Occurrence)
Tubal-cain. Tubalcain, Tubal-cain. Tubal-cain's . Easton's Bible Dictionary
The son ... iron"). Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. TUBAL-CAIN. tu ...
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Tubal-cain's (1 Occurrence)
Tubal-cain's. Tubal-cain, Tubal-cain's. Tubes . Multi-Version
Concordance Tubal-cain's (1 Occurrence). Genesis 4:22 ...
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Meshech (11 Occurrences)
... the annals of Assyria as enemies of that country under the names Tabali and
Mushki-the latter the descendants of Meshech and the former those of Tubal to whom ...
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Tubalcain (1 Occurrence)
... Standard Bible Encyclopedia. TUBAL-CAIN. ... This would make Tubal-cain the founder of
the metal industry, and place him in a class similar to that of his brothers. ...
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Rosh (5 Occurrences)
... against Gog in Ezekiel 38:2, 3 and 39:1, where the King James Version has "Gog,
the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal." This translation is ...
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Javan (12 Occurrences)
... Javan (12 Occurrences). Genesis 10:2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan,
Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Mesech (1 Occurrence)
... the annals of Assyria as enemies of that country under the names Tabali and
Mushki-the latter the descendants of Meshech and the former those of Tubal to whom ...
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Gog (12 Occurrences)
... gog (gogh; Goug): (1) A son of Joel, and descendant of the tribe of Reuben (1
Chronicles 5:4). (2) The prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal (Ezekiel 38:2; Ezekiel ...
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Zillah (3 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Shadow, one of the wives of Lamech, of the line of Cain,
and mother of Tubal-cain (Genesis 4:19, 22). ...Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah. ...
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Bible Concordance

Tubal (9 Occurrences)

Genesis 4:22 Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron. Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 10:2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 1:5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 66:19 "I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the islands afar off, who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 32:26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are around them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 38:2 Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 38:3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 39:1 You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Tubal

Tubal: Descendants of, Become a Nation

Tubal: Son of Japheth

Related Terms

Tubal-cain (1 Occurrence)

Tubal-cain's (1 Occurrence)

Meshech (11 Occurrences)

Tubalcain (1 Occurrence)

Rosh (5 Occurrences)

Javan (12 Occurrences)

Mesech (1 Occurrence)