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Lexicon :: Strong's H3316 - yip̄tāḥ

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יִפְתָּח
Transliteration
yip̄tāḥ
Pronunciation
yif-tawkh'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יִפְתָּח Yiphtâch, yif-tawkh'; from H6605; he will open; Jiphtach, an Israelite; also a place in Palestine:—Jephthah, Jiphtah.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x

The KJV translates Strong's H3316 in the following manner: Jephthah (29x), Jiphtah (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x
The KJV translates Strong's H3316 in the following manner: Jephthah (29x), Jiphtah (1x).

  1. Jephthah or Jiphtah = "he opens"

    proper masculine noun

    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

      proper locative noun

    2. a city in Judah

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יִפְתָּח Yiphtâch, yif-tawkh'; from H6605; he will open; Jiphtach, an Israelite; also a place in Palestine:—Jephthah, Jiphtah.
STRONGS H3316: Abbreviations
† יִפְתָּח proper name
1. masculine Jephthah, Ιεφθαε (he [God] openeth); — Judges 11:1 (twice in verse) + 26 times 11, 12, 1 Samuel 12:11.
2. location in the שְׁפֵלָה Joshua 15:43 (P), A LXX of Lucian (Lag.) ιεφθα.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Joshua

15:43

Judges

11:1

1 Samuel

12:11

H3316

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3316 matches the Hebrew יִפְתָּח (yip̄tāḥ),
which occurs 30 times in 26 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:43 - and Iphtah H3316 and Ashnah and Nezib,

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Now Jephthah H3316 the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, but he was the son of a harlot. And Gilead [fn]became the father of Jephthah H3316.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:2 - And Gilead’s wife bore him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah H3316 out and said to him, “You shall not have an inheritance in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:3 - So Jephthah H3316 fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob; and worthless fellows gathered themselves [fn]about Jephthah H3316, and they went out with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:5 - So it happened that as the sons of Ammon fought against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah H3316 from the land of Tob;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:6 - and they said to Jephthah H3316, “Come and be our chief that we may fight against the sons of Ammon.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:7 - Then Jephthah H3316 said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and drive me from my father’s house? So why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:8 - And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah H3316, “For this reason we have now returned to you, that you may go with us and fight with the sons of Ammon and become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9 - So Jephthah H3316 said to the elders of Gilead, “If you take me back to fight against the sons of Ammon and Yahweh gives them up [fn]to me, will I become your head?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:10 - And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah H3316, “Yahweh is [fn]witness between us; surely we will do [fn]as you have said.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:11 - Then Jephthah H3316 went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them; and Jephthah H3316 spoke all his words before Yahweh at Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:12 -

And Jephthah H3316 sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, saying, “What is between you and me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - Then the king of the sons of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah H3316, “Because Israel took away my land when they came up from Egypt, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and the Jordan; so now, return them peaceably.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:14 - But Jephthah H3316 sent messengers again to the king of the sons of Ammon,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:15 - and they said to him, “Thus says Jephthah H3316, ‘Israel did not take away the land of Moab nor the land of the sons of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:28 - But the king of the sons of Ammon did not listen to the words which Jephthah H3316 sent him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:29 -

Now the Spirit of Yahweh came upon Jephthah H3316, so that he passed through Gilead and Manasseh; then he passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he went on to the sons of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:30 - Then Jephthah H3316 made a vow to Yahweh and said, “If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:32 - So Jephthah H3316 crossed over to the sons of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh gave them into his hand.

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Then Jephthah H3316 came to his house at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. Now she was his one and only child; besides her he had no son or daughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:40 - that the daughters of Israel went yearly to [fn]commemorate the daughter of Jephthah H3316 the Gileadite four days in the year.

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Then the men of Ephraim were summoned, and they crossed [fn]to Zaphon and said to Jephthah H3316, “Why did you cross over to fight against the sons of Ammon, but did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house down on you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:2 - Then Jephthah H3316 said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the sons of Ammon. And I cried out to you, but you did not save me from their hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:4 - Then Jephthah H3316 gathered all the men of Gilead and fought Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim down because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, O Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasseh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:7 -

And Jephthah H3316 judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah H3316 the Gileadite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:11 - “Then Yahweh sent Jerubbaal and [fn]Bedan and Jephthah H3316 and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies all around, so that you lived in security.
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