Son of Mizraim (Gen. 10:13 and 1 Chron. 1:11). His descendants are mentioned with Phut, and are held to have inhabited the northwest of Africa (Isa. 66:19; Ezek. 27:10). The same district is called LYDIA (though the Hebrew is simply Lud) and its inhabitants, LYDIANS (Jer. 46:9; Ezek. 30:5).