Easton's Bible Dictionary: M. G. Easton, M.A., D.D.
- The fifth son of Japheth (Gen. 10:2).
- A nation, probably descended from the son of Japheth. It is mentioned by Isaiah (Isa. 66:19), along with Javan, and by Ezekiel (Ezek. 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.