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rı̄´fath (ריפת, rı̄phath): A son of Gomer, the eldest son of Japhet (; , where Massoretic Text and the Revised Version (British and American) read DIPHATH (which see)). Josephus (Ant., I, vi, 1) identifies the Ripheans with the Paphlagonians, through whose country on the Black Sea ran the river “Rhebas†(Pliny, NH, vi. 4).