STRONGS NUMBER H4031


Word Summary
Magog: perhaps "land of Gog", a son of Japheth, also his desc. and their land
Original Word: מָגוֹג
Transliteration: Magog
Phonetic Spelling: (maw-gogue')
Part of Speech: Proper Name
Short Definition: perhaps "land of Gog", a son of Japheth, also his desc. and their land
Meaning: Magog -- perhaps "land of Gog", a son of Japheth, also his descendants and their land
Strong's Concordance
Magog

From Gowg; Magog, a son of Japheth; also a barbarous northern region -- Magog.

see HEBREW Gowg

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4031. Magog

מָגוֺגproper name, of a territory (= land of Gog? compare DlPa 246 LenOr ii. 1, 465) — Ezekiel 38:2; 39:6; in Genesis 10:2 = 1 Chronicles 1:5 a son of Japhet, וְתִירָס וּמֶשֶׁךְ וְתֻבָ֑ל וְיָוָן וּמָדַי וּמָגוֺג גֹּמֶר יֶפֶת בְּנֵי‎; = Scythians? compare JosAnt. i. 6. 1; LagGes. Abh. 158 refers name to mountainous region between Cappadocia and Media; compare Di Genesis 10:2, KiepMBAk Feb. 1889, 207 (North & East Armenia), Len (Southeast Armenia), see especially LenOr ii. 1, 412-476.