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Tubal @

(1.) The fifth son of Japheth kjv@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 kjv@Ezekiel:38:2-3 kjv@Ezekiel: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.



Tubal-cain @ the son of Lamech and Zillah, "an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron" kjv@Genesis:4:22; R.V., "the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron").