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# יָפִיעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3309

**Japhia** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Japhia [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3309/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָפִיעַ: n.pr.pers. loc. n.pr.m. n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3309/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.pers. et loc. n.pr.m. (cf. Sab. יפעאל Hal 150)— a king of Lachish Jos 10:3, 𝔊 Ιεφθα, A 𝔊L Ιαφ(α)ιε. a son of David 2 S 5:15 (𝔊 Ιεφιες, 𝔊L Ναφεθ) = 1 Ch 3:7 (𝔊 Ιανουε, A Ιαφιε, 𝔊L Αχικαμ) = 14:6 (𝔊 Ιανουου, A Ιαφιε, 𝔊L Ιαβεγ). n.pr.loc. on border of Zebulun Jos 19:12, perhaps = mod. Yâfa, 1/2 hour from Nazareth, RobBR ii. 343 f, but 𝔊 φαγγαι, A Ιαφαγαι; 𝔊L Ιαφφιε.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Japhia (4).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 3:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.7/#tree)

וְנֹ֥גַהּ וְנֶ֖פֶג וְיָפִֽיעַ׃

*Word for word:* and Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia

*JPS 1917:* and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia;

[1 Chronicles 14:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.14.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.14.6/#tree)

וְנֹ֥גַהּ וְנֶ֖פֶג וְיָפִֽיעַ׃

*Word for word:* and Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia

*JPS 1917:* and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3309.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3309/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).