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# יַפְלֵטִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3311

**Japhletite** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Japhletite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3311/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַפְלֵטִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3311/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. c. art. as n. coll. הַיּ׳ the Japhlites Jos 16:3, family or clan on SW. border of Ephraim; Απταλειμ, A Ιεφαλθι, 𝔊L Ιεφλητι.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the Japhletite\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 16:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.16.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.16.3/#tree)

וְיָֽרַד־יָ֜מָּה אֶל־גְּב֣וּל הַיַּפְלֵטִ֗י עַ֣ד גְּב֧וּל בֵּית־חוֹרֹ֛ןבֵּית־חוֹרֹ֛ן תַּחְתּ֖וֹן וְעַד־גָּ֑זֶר וְהָי֥וּ תֹצְאֹתָ֖יו יָֽמָּה׃

*Word for word:* and it.goes.down westward to the.border of the.Japhletite\[s\] to the.border of Beth.Horon lower and to Gezer and they.are extremities its sea to.\[the\]

*JPS 1917:* And it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, unto the border of Beth-horon the nether, even unto Gezer; and the goings out thereof were at the sea.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3311/): 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).