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# נֶפְתּוֹחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5318

**Neptoah** — used 2 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

Neptoah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5318/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֶפְתּוֹחַ²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5318/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Μαφθω, Ναφθω, in מֵי נ׳ Jos 15:9; 18:15 (P), on border of Judah and Benj.; usually identif. with spring Liftâ, near Jerus. to the NW., v. BuhlGeogr. 101. נַפְתֻּחִים v. p. 661.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Nephtoah (2).

## In the verses

[Joshua 18:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.18.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.18.15/#tree)

וּפְאַת־נֶ֕גְבָּה מִקְצֵ֖ה קִרְיַ֣ת יְעָרִ֑ים קִרְיַ֣ת יְעָרִ֑ים וְיָצָ֤א הַגְּבוּל֙ יָ֔מָּה וְיָצָ֕א אֶל־מַעְיַ֖ן מֵ֥י נֶפְתּֽוֹחַ׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] side south of.(to).\[the\] \[is\].from the.end of Kiriath.Jearim and it.goes.out the border westward and it.goes.out to the.spring of.the.waters of.Nephtoah

*JPS 1917:* And the south side was from the uttermost part of Kiriath-jearim, and the border went out westward, and went out to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah.

[Joshua 15:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.9/#tree)

וְתָאַ֨ר הַגְּב֜וּל מֵרֹ֣אשׁ הָהָ֗ר אֶל־מַעְיַן֙ מֵ֣י נֶפְתּ֔וֹחַ וְיָצָ֖א אֶל־עָרֵ֣י הַר־עֶפְר֑וֹן וְתָאַ֤ר הַגְּבוּל֙ בַּעֲלָ֔ה הִ֖יא קִרְיַ֥ת יְעָרִֽים קִרְיַ֥ת יְעָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.turns the border from the.top of the.mountain to the.spring of.the.waters of.Nephtoah and it.goes.out to the.cities of.the.mountain of.Ephron and it.turns the border Baalah that \[is\].Kiriath Jearim

*JPS 1917:* And the border was drawn from the top of the mountain unto the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah — the same is Kiriath-jearim.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5318/): 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).