Lexical Summary Kaphtor: probably a name for Crete Original Word: כַּפְתֹּרTransliteration: Kaphtor Phonetic Spelling: (kaf-tore') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: probably a name for Crete Meaning: Caphtor -- probably a name for Crete Strong's Concordance 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 Brown-Driver-Briggs H3731. Kaphtor II. כַּפְתֹּר כַּפְתּוֺר proper name, of a territory probably Crete, so Ew Kiep DiGenesis 10:14 GieJeremiah 47:4 and others; compare A. J. EvansCretan Pictographs (1895), 100 ff.; (> ᵐ5. Syriac Version. ᵑ7 ᵑ9. Cappadocia, certainly wrong; Mich Cyprus; EbAgM 127 ff. and others the coast of the Nile-Delta; WMMAs.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); כַּפְתֹּר אִי שְׁאֵרִית Jeremiah 47:4 the rest of the coast-land of Caphtor. — See also כְּרֵתִי below |
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