TIRAS

(Tiʹras).

One of the seven sons of Japheth. (Gen. 10:2; 1 Chron. 1:5) The people descended from Japheth’s sons were later “spread about in their lands, each according to its tongue.”—Gen. 10:5.

Generally, authorities of the present day consider Tiras to be identified with the Tyr·se·noiʹ of classical Greek writers, also called Tyr·hre·noiʹ. The Tyr·se·noiʹ were a seafaring people of the islands and coastlands of the Aegean Sea.