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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 - Jiphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:1 - Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, but he was the son of a harlot; and Gilead begot Jephthah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:2 - Gilead’s wife bore sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:3 - Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and dwelt in the land of Tob; and worthless men banded together with Jephthah and went out raiding with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:5 - And so it was, when the people of Ammon made war against Israel, that the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:6

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:7 - So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me, and expel me from my father’s house? 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, “That is why we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us and fight against the people of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9 - So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you take me back home to fight against the people of Ammon, and the LORD delivers them to me, shall I be your head?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:10 - And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD will be a witness between us, if we do not do according to your words.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:11

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:12 - Now Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the people of Ammon, saying, “What do you have against me, that you have come to fight against me in my land?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - And the king of the people of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when they came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore, restore those lands peaceably.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:14 - So Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the people of Ammon,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:28 - However, the king of the people of Ammon did not heed the words which Jephthah sent him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:29 - Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, and passed through Mizpah of Gilead; and from Mizpah of Gilead he advanced toward the people of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:30 - And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, and said, “If You will indeed deliver the people of Ammon into my hands,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:32 - So Jephthah advanced toward the people of Ammon to fight against them, and the LORD delivered them into his hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:34 - When Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, there was his daughter, coming out to meet him with timbrels and dancing; and she was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:40 - that the daughters of Israel went four days each year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1 - Then the men of Ephraim gathered together, crossed over toward Zaphon, and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the people of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house down on you with fire!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:2 - And Jephthah said to them, “My people and I were in a great struggle with the people of Ammon; and when I called you, you did not deliver me out of their hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:4 - Now Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead defeated Ephraim, because they said, “You Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites and among the Manassites.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:7 - And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in among the cities of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:11 - “And the LORD sent Jerubbaal,[fn] Bedan,[fn] Jephthah, and Samuel,[fn] and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you dwelt in safety.
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