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Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31

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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #3731 - כַּפְתֹּר

Transliteration

Kaphtôr

Phonetics

kaf-tore', kaf-tore'

Origin

apparently the same as (H3730)

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun

TWOT

1028

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Caphtor = "a crown"
1. the original home of the Philistines, perhaps on the southwest coast of Asia Minor, maybe in Egypt or close by, or more probably on the island of Crete
2. (TWOT) the island of Crete, homeland or staging area of the Philistines

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (3)

Deuteronomy 1

Jeremiah 1

Amos 1

BSB (3)

Deuteronomy 1

Jeremiah 1

Amos 1

CSB (2)

Deuteronomy 1

Jeremiah 1

Amos 1

ESV (3)

Deuteronomy 1

Jeremiah 1

Amos 1

KJV (3)

Deuteronomy 1

Jeremiah 1

Amos 1

LEB (3)

Deuteronomy 1

Jeremiah 1

Amos 1

LSB (3)

Deuteronomy 1

Jeremiah 1

Amos 1

N95 (3)

Deuteronomy 1

Jeremiah 1

Amos 1

NAS (3)

Deuteronomy 1

Jeremiah 1

Amos 1

NLT (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (3)

Deuteronomy 1

Jeremiah 1

Amos 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

II. כַּפְתּוֺרכַּפְתֹּר proper name, of a territory probably Crete, so Ew Kiep Di^{Genesis 10:14} Gie^{Jeremiah 47:4} and others; compare A. J. Evans^{Cretan Pictographs (1895), 100 ff.}; (> ᵐ5. Syriac Version. ᵑ9ᵑ7. Cappadocia, certainly wrong; Mich Cyprus; Eb^{AgM 127 ff.} and others the coast of the Nile-Delta; WMM^As.Eu.387f. 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); שְׁאֵרִית אִי כַּפְתֹּר Jeremiah 47:4 the rest of the coast-land of Caphtor. — See also כְּרֵתִי below

List of Word Forms

כַפְתּֽוֹר׃ כפתור׃ מִכַּפְתּ֔וֹר מִכַּפְתּ֖וֹר מכפתור chafTor ḵap̄·tō·wr ḵap̄tōwr mik·kap̄·tō·wr mikkafTor mikkap̄tōwr