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# יִפְתָּח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3316

**Jephthah** — used 29 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

Jephthah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3316/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יִפְתָּח²: n.pr. Jephthah loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3316/#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, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jephthah (26); of Jephthah (3).

## In the verses

[Judges 11:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.14/#tree)

וַיּ֥וֹסֶף ע֖וֹד יִפְתָּ֑ח וַיִּשְׁלַח֙ מַלְאָכִ֔ים אֶל־מֶ֖לֶךְ בְּנֵ֥י עַמּֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and he.repeated again Jephthah and he.sent messengers to the.king of.the.people of.Ammon

*JPS 1917:* And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon;

[Judges 11:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.28/#tree)

וְלֹ֣א שָׁמַ֔ע מֶ֖לֶךְ בְּנֵ֣י עַמּ֑וֹן אֶל־דִּבְרֵ֣י יִפְתָּ֔ח אֲשֶׁ֥ר שָׁלַ֖ח אֵלָֽיו׃פ

*Word for word:* and not he.listened the.king of.the.people of.Ammon to the.words of.Jephthah which he.sent to him

*JPS 1917:* Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3316.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3316/): 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).