Joktan  

• General Notes
  • The progenitor of no less than thirteen southern Arabian tribes, he is remembered amongst modern Arabs as Yaqtan. Only the purest Arabs, it is still maintained, are those Semitic Arabs descended from Joktan; whilst Hamitic Arabs are referred to somewhat disdainfully as Musta 'rabs, pretended Arabs. Joktan's name is preserved in that of the ancient town of Jectan near present-day Mecca.   Josephus knew him as Joctan.
    (Refs: IDB 2:963-4. NBD 652. JA 1.vi.3. P 1:28)
    

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