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# יִפְתָּח

Biblical Hebrew

**Jephthah** — 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

Jephthah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b4_5e4_5b0_5ea_5b8_5bc_5d7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יִפְתָּח²: n.pr. Jephthah loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b4_5e4_5b0_5ea_5b8_5bc_5d7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. m. Jephthah, Ιεφθαε (he \[God\] openeth);—Ju 11:1(×2) + 26 times 11, 12, 1 S 12:11. loc. in the שְׁפֵלָה Jos 15:43 (P), A 𝔊L Ιεφθα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.43/#tree)

וְיִפְתָּ֥ח וְאַשְׁנָ֖ה וּנְצִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* and Iphtah and Ashnah and Nezib

*JPS 1917:* and Iphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d9_5b4_5e4_5b0_5ea_5b8_5bc_5d7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b4_5e4_5b0_5ea_5b8_5bc_5d7/): 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).