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Magog is the name of the second of the "sons" of [[Text:EBD:Japheth (EBD)|Japheth]] recorded in [[Genesis 10:2]] and [[1 Chronicles 1:5]]).

Magog is also mentioned in the [[Text:EBD:Ezekiel, Book of (EBD)|Book of Ezekiel]] ([[Ezekiel 38:2]]; [[Ezekiel 39:6]]) where it is the name of a nation, probably some Scythian or Tartar tribe descended from Japheth. Its people are described as skilled horsemen, and expert in the use of the bow. The Latin father [[Jerome]] taught 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).