Meshech, Mesech [Mē’shech,Mē’sech]—drawing out.

1. A son of Japheth (Gen. 10:2; 1 Chron. 1:5).
2. A son of Shem (1 Chron. 1:17). Also the name of a tribe (Ps. 120:5).

The descendants of the son of Japheth are the Mosochi. Meshech usually appears with Tubal (Ezek. 38:2, 3; 39:1). The Mosochi or Moschi were a race inhabiting a part of the country between the Black and Caspian Seas. From Moschi comes Muscovites—the natives of Russia—then Moscow, the large metropolis of European Russia. Meshech along with Tubal is mentioned as trading in slaves (Ezek. 27:13), a traffic Moscow is notoriously famous for today. Moscow is now the hub of the communist universe, and will likely be the center of authority when the Northern Confederacy is finally formed.