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# כַּפְתֹּרִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3732

**Cretans** — 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

Cretans [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3732/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּפְתֹּרִי: adj.gent. Cretans [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3732/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent., only pl. as subst. כַּפְתֹּרִים Cretans; Gn 10:14 (J) = 1 Ch 1:12; as expellers of the ‘Awwim’ from their homes about Gaza, Dt 2:23.

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, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] Caphtorites (3).

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.14/#tree)

וְֽאֶת־פַּתְרֻסִ֞ים וְאֶת־כַּסְלֻחִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר יָצְא֥וּ מִשָּׁ֛ם פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים וְאֶת־כַּפְתֹּרִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* and (et) \[the\].Pathrusites and (et) \[the\].Casluhites where they.came.out from there \[the\].Philistines and (et) \[the\].Caphtorites

*JPS 1917:* and Pathrusim, and Casluhim — whence went forth the Philistines — and Caphtorim.

[1 Chronicles 1:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.12/#tree)

וְֽאֶת־פַּתְרֻסִ֞ים וְאֶת־כַּסְלֻחִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר יָצְא֥וּ מִשָּׁ֛ם פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים וְאֶת־כַּפְתֹּרִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* and (et) \[the\].Pathrusites and (et) \[the\].Casluhites where they.came.forth from there \[the\].Philistines and (et) \[the\].Caphtorites

*JPS 1917:* and Pathrusim, and Casluhim — from whence came the Philistines — and Caphtorim.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3732/): 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).