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Strong's #3316 - יִפְתָּח

Transliteration

Yiphtâch

Phonetics

yif-tawkh'

Root Word (Etymology)

from (H6605);

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun, proper masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Jephthah or Jiphtah = “he opens”

1) a son of Gilead and a concubine and the judge who defeated the Ammonites; after the victory because of a vow taken before the battle he sacrificed his daughter as a burnt offering (noun proper masculine)

2) a city in Judah (noun proper locative)

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (30)

Joshua 1

Judges 28

1 Samuel 1

NAS (30)

Joshua 1

Judges 28

1 Samuel 1

HCS (30)

Joshua 1

Judges 28

1 Samuel 1

BSB (30)

Joshua 1

Judges 28

1 Samuel 1

ESV (30)

Joshua 1

Judges 28

1 Samuel 1

WEB (30)

Joshua 1

Judges 28

1 Samuel 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

יִפְתָּח proper name

1. masculine Jephthah, Ιεφθαε ( he [God] openeth); — Judges 11:1 (twice in verse) + 26t. 11,12, 1 Samuel 12:11.

2. location in the שְׁפֵלָה Joshua 15:43 (P), A ᵐ5^L ιεφθα.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

יִפְתָּח (prob. “whom, or what God sets free,” see the root פָּתַח Isaiah 14:17), pr.n.

(1) [Jiphtah], a town in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:43.

(2) [Jephthah], a judge of Israel, celebrated for having, in compliance with a vow, sacrificed his daughter, Judges 11:12; 1 Samuel 12:11 Greek Ἰεφθα, Ἰεφθάε, Vulg. Jephte.

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List of Word Forms

וְיִפְתָּ֣ח וְיִפְתָּ֥ח ויפתח יִפְתָּ֑ח יִפְתָּ֔ח יִפְתָּ֖ח יִפְתָּ֗ח יִפְתָּ֛ח יִפְתָּ֜ח יִפְתָּ֣ח יִפְתָּ֥ח יִפְתָּ֧ח יִפְתָּֽח׃ יִפְתָּח֙ יפתח יפתח׃ לְיִפְתָּ֔ח לְיִפְתָּ֜ח ליפתח lə·yip̄·tāḥ leyifTach ləyip̄tāḥ veyifTach wə·yip̄·tāḥ wəyip̄tāḥ yifTach yip̄·tāḥ yip̄tāḥ