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# יְפֻנֶּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3312

**Jephunneh** — used 16 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

Jephunneh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3312/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְפֻנֶּה²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3312/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (on form cf. LagBN 134);— father of Caleb Nu 13:6; 14:6; Jos 14:6, 13; 1 Ch 4:15 + 10 times, Ιεφοννη. Asherite 1 Ch 7:38, Ιφινα, A Ιεφιηλ, 𝔊L Ιεφοννη.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Jephunneh (15); \[were\] Jephunneh (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 13:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.6/#tree)

לְמַטֵּ֣ה יְהוּדָ֔ה כָּלֵ֖ב בֶּן־יְפֻנֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* for the.tribe of.Judah Caleb the.son of.Jephunneh

*JPS 1917:* Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

[1 Chronicles 7:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.38/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י יֶ֑תֶר יְפֻנֶּ֥ה וּפִסְפָּ֖ה וַאְרָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Jether \[were\].Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3312.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3312/): 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).