Magog

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Magog
     region of Gog, the second of the "sons" of Japheth (Gen. 10:2; 1
     Chr. 1:5). In Ezekiel (38:2; 39:6) it is the name of a nation,
     probably some Scythian or Tartar tribe descended from Japheth.
     They are described as skilled horsemen, and expert in the use of
     the bow. The Latin father Jerome says that this word denotes


     "Scythian nations, fierce and innumerable, who live beyond the
     Caucasus and the Lake Maeotis, and near the Caspian Sea, and
     spread out even onward to India." Perhaps the name "represents
     the Assyrian Mat Gugi, or 'country of Gugu,' the Gyges of the
     Greeks" (Sayce's Races, etc.).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Magog, covering; roof; dissolving
  Magor-missabib; fear on every side