Japhetites
![This T and O map, from the first printed version of Isidoor's Etymologiae, identifies the three known continents as populated by descendants of Sem (Shem), Iafeth (Japheth) and Cham (Ham).](/Images/godic/202501/21/T_and_O_map_Guntherus_Ziner_14720810.jpg")
Japhetite (also Japhethitic, Japhetic) in Abrahamic religions is a historical obsolete term for the peoples supposedly descended from Japheth, one of the three sons of Noah in the Bible. The other two sons of Noah, Shem and Ham, are the eponymous ancestors of the Semites and the Hamites, respectively.