Lexicon Kaphtor: probably a name for Crete Original Word: כַּפְתּוֹרPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Kaphtor Phonetic Spelling: (kaf-tore') Short Definition: Caphtor NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as kaphtorDefinitionprobably a name for Crete NASB TranslationCaphtor (3).
Brown-Driver-Briggs II. כַּפְתּוֺר כַּפְתֹּר proper name, of a territory probably Crete, so Ew Kiep Di Genesis 10:14 Gie Jeremiah 47:4 and others; compare A. J. Evans Cretan Pictographs (1895), 100 ff.; (> ᵐ5. Syriac Version. ᵑ9 ᵑ7. Cappadocia, certainly wrong; Mich Cyprus; Eb AgM 127 ff. and others the coast of the Nile-Delta; WMM As.Eu.387 f. Philistines, originally pirates from southwest coast of Asia Minor, and the Aegean islands); — כַּפְתּוֺר Amos 9:7 (original home of Philistines), כַּפְתֹּר Deuteronomy 2:23 (home of Caphtorim, see below); שְׁאֵרִית אִי כַּפְתֹּר Jeremiah 47:4 the rest of the coast-land of Caphtor. — See also כְּרֵתִי below Strong's Caphtor Or (Am. 9:7) Kaphtowr {kaf-tore'}; apparently the same as kaphtor; Caphtor (i.e. A wreath-shaped island), the original seat of the Philistines -- Caphtor. see HEBREW kaphtor |
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