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International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Naphtuhim:

naf-tu'-him (naphtuchim; Septuagint Nephthaleim): A son of Mizraim (Ge 10:13; 1Ch 1:11); but, according to most modern authorities, a district or a dependency of Egypt. Among the many efforts at identification the following deserve notice: Naphtuhim equals

(1) Nephthys (Nephthus) in the Northeast of Egypt;

(2) Na-ptah, i.e. the people of Ptah, the dwellers in the neighborhood of Memphis;

(3) Nathu (according to Herodotus, Natho), which occurs in Assurbanipal's Annals as the name of a part of Lower Egypt;

(4) Erman (ZATW, X, 118), by the change of a letter, reads Petemhim, which signifies "The Northland";

(5) Spiegelberg sees in the word an old designation of the Delta, and would therefore render the name, "the people of the Delta" (compare Johns, HDB; Skinner and Holzinger on Genesis).

Written by John A. Lees

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