Lehavite Nation
From Wikinoah English
The Gentile name of this nation's Patriarch is Polus:
Y-DNA Haplogroup E-Z827
This Genetic marker reaches 19% in samples taken from among Ethiopian Oromo.
The Targum translates this name as Livvakai or Livkai, a Lybian tribe possibly related to the Libu. The name "Lehavim/Lehabim" derives from "lahab" (fire) and literally means 'fire people,' since their faces are like fire (Rashi).
Josephus states that they are the ancient Libyans (which was at that time a Greek term used to refer to all of Africa which to the ancient Greco-Romans was a Mysterious ancestral land.
See note on Genesis 10:6 regarding Put.
