Meshech
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The World as known to the Hebrews. This map [From Historical Textbook and Atlas of Biblical Geography by Coleman (1854)] locates Meshech together with Gog and Magog, roughly in the southern Caucasus. |
Meshech is named as a son of
Japheth in
Genesis 10:2 and
1 Chronicles 1:5, and as a son of
Shem in 1 Chronicles 1:17.
Meshech is named with
Tubal as a principality of the prince of
Gog and Magog in
Ezekiel 38:2 and 39:1, considered a
Japhetite tribe, identified by
Flavius Josephus with the
Cappadocian Moschoi (see
Mushki).
Meshech is seen as ancestor of the Russian people by some Bible scholars who consider it possible that geographic names in Russia such as Moscow, the Meschera tribe and the Meschera Lowland, could be related to Meschech. In addition, the people of
Georgia have traditions of descent from Meshech, among others.
