Word Study · Strong's H3309 · Hebrew
יָפִיעַ
Yaphia
yaw-fee'-ah
Strong's 1890 spelling: Yâphîyaʻ
“Japhia, the name of a Canaanite, an Israelite, and a place in Palestine”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Japhia, the name of a Canaanite, an Israelite, and a place in Palestine
Rendered in the KJV as
Japhia.
- 5occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 3 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 3inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 5 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 3
- וְיָפִֽיעַ׃3
- יָפִ֧יעַ1
- יָפִֽיעַ׃1
How it is rendered · 2
- and Japhia3
- Japhia2
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3
- proper noun (a name)1
- proper noun (a name)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HC/Npm · 3
- HNpl · 1
- HNpm · 1
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The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Joshua2 occurrences
- Joshua 10:3יָפִ֧יעַyafia'proper noun (a name)Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,here: Japhia
- Joshua 19:12יָפִֽיעַ׃yafia'proper noun (a name)From Sarid it turned eastward along the border of Chisloth-tabor and went on to Daberath and up to Japhia.here: Japhia