Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H3731
כַּפְתֹּר
Kaphtorkaf-tore'
Caphtor
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Kaphtôr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3731is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3731
Caphtor (i.e. a wreath-shaped island), the original seat of the Philistines
The King James renders it: Caphtor.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Kaphtor is rendered "Caphtor". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 2:23And the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, were destroyed by the Caphtorites, who came out of Caphtor and settled in their place.)
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
And the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, were destroyed by the Caphtorites, who came out of Caphtor and settled in their place.)
Deuteronomy 2:23מִכַּפְתּ֔וֹר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- from Caphtor2
- Caphtor1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כַּפֹּרֶת | kapporeth | mercy seat | Uses27 |
| כַּפְתֹּר | kaphtor | capital | Uses18 |
| כַּפְתֹּרִי | Kaphtori | Caphtorim | Uses3 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- כַפְתּֽוֹר׃1
- מִכַּפְתּ֔וֹר1
- מִכַּפְתּ֖וֹר1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2HR/Npl
- proper noun (a name)1HNpl
Deuteronomy
one use
And the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, were destroyed by the Caphtorites, who came out of Caphtor and settled in their place.)
- מִכַּפְתּ֔וֹרmikaftorpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Caphtor
Jeremiah
one use
For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every remaining ally. Indeed, the LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.
- כַפְתּֽוֹר׃khaftorproper noun (a name)tagged: Caphtor
Amos
one use
“Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?
- מִכַּפְתּ֖וֹרmikaftorpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Caphtor
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.