Hebrew noun (feminine) · H5299
נָפָה
naphahnaw-faw'
sieve; height
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâphâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5299is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5299
a height; also a sieve
The King James renders it: border, coast, region, sieve.
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
naphah is rendered "sieve; height". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Joshua, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "sieve".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 11:2to the kings of the north in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Chinnereth, in the foothills, and in Naphoth-dor to the west;
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
to the kings of the north in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Chinnereth, in the foothills, and in Naphoth-dor to the west;
Joshua 11:2וּבְנָפ֥וֹת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: sieve, and height.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| sieveStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereJoshua 11:2to the kings of the north in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Chinnereth, in the foothills… |
| heightStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and on heights of1
- in a sieve of1
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.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- בְּנָ֣פַת1
- וּבְנָפ֥וֹת1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncfpc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfsc
Joshua
one use
to the kings of the north in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Chinnereth, in the foothills, and in Naphoth-dor to the west;
- וּבְנָפ֥וֹתuvenafotconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and on heights of
Isaiah
one use
His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
- בְּנָ֣פַתbenafatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in a sieve of
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.