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# כַּפְתּוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3731

**Caphtor** — used 3 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

Caphtor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3731/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּפְתּוֹר²: n.pr.terr Crete [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3731/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.terr prob. Crete, so Ew Kiep Di Gn 10:14 Gie Je 47:4 al.; cf. A. J. Evans Cretan Pictographs (1895), 100 ff.; (\> 𝔊 𝔖 𝔙 𝔗 Cappadocia, certainly wrong; Mich Cyprus; EbÄgM 127 ff. al. the coast of the Nile-Delta; WMMAs. Eu. 387 f. Philistines, originally pirates from SW. coast of Asia Minor, and the Ægean islands);—כַּפְתּוֹר Am 9:7 (orig. home of Philistines), כַּפְתֹּר Dt 2:23 (home of Caphtorim, v. infr.); שְׁאֵרִית אִי כַּפְתֹּר Je 47:4 the rest of the coast-land of Caphtor.—Vid. also כְּרֵתִי infr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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: Caphtor (2); of Caphtor (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 2:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.23/#tree)

וְהָֽעַוִּ֛ים הַיֹּשְׁבִ֥ים בַּחֲצֵרִ֖ים עַד־עַזָּ֑ה כַּפְתֹּרִים֙ הַיֹּצְאִ֣ים מִכַּפְתּ֔וֹר הִשְׁמִידֻ֖ם וַיֵּשְׁב֥וּ תַחְתָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and the Avvites \[who were\].dwelling in villages to Gaza \[the\].Caphtorites \[who\].came forth from Caphtor they destroyed.them and they.dwelt in place.of.them

*JPS 1917:* and the Avvim, that dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead. —

[Jeremiah 47:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.47.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.47.4/#tree)

עַל־הַיּ֗וֹם הַבָּא֙ לִשְׁד֣וֹד אֶת־כָּל־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים לְהַכְרִ֤ית לְצֹר֙ וּלְצִיד֔וֹן כֹּ֖ל שָׂרִ֣יד עֹזֵ֑ר כִּֽי־שֹׁדֵ֤ד יְהוָה֙ אֶת־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים שְׁאֵרִ֖ית אִ֥י כַפְתּֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* on the day \[which is\].about.to.come to devastate (et) all \[the\].Philistines to cut.off to Tyre and to Sidon every survivor \[who\].helps (dm) \[is\].about.to.devastate Yahweh (et) \[the\].Philistines the.remnant of.the.coastland of.Caphtor

*JPS 1917:* Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Zidon every helper that remaineth; for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3731.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3731/): 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).