Meshech was a son of Japheth, who was the son of Noah. He is regarded as the ancestor of a people often associated in biblical tradition with regions in Asia Minor (Anatolia). Meshech is mentioned several times in the Old Testament, particularly in prophetic texts in Ezekiel, where his people are mentioned together with Tubal and Gog from the land of Magog.
Meshech is mentioned as one of the sons of Japheth in the table of nations after the flood. He is part of Noah's descendants who spread across the earth.
26Meshech and Tubal are there with all their hordes, their graves all around them—all of them uncircumcised, pierced by the sword, because they spread their terror through the land of the living.
27They do not lie with the warriors who fell in ages past, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, their swords laid beneath their heads and their guilt resting on their bones—for the terror of these warriors once filled the land of the living.