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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 and Ashnah and Nezib,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:1 -

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a brave warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:3 - Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob; and worthless and unprincipled men gathered around Jephthah, and went out [on raids] with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:5 - When the Ammonites fought against Israel, 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 - and they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our leader, so that we may fight against the Ammonites.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:7 - But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and drive me from the house of my father? Why have you come to me now when you are in trouble?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:8 - The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “This is why we have turned to you now: that you may go with us and fight the Ammonites and become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9 - So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you take me back [home] to fight against the Ammonites and the LORD gives them over to me, will I [really] become your head?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:10 - The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD is [fn]the witness between us; be assured that we will do as you have said.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:11 - So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah [fn]repeated everything that he had promised before the LORD at Mizpah.

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Now Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, “What is [the problem] between you and me, that you have come against me to fight in my land?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - The Ammonites’ king replied to the messengers of Jephthah, “It is because Israel took away [fn]my land when they came up from Egypt, from the [river] Arnon as far as the Jabbok and [east of] the Jordan; so now, return those lands peaceably.”

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:15 - and they said to him, “This is what Jephthah says: ‘Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:28 - But the king of the Ammonites disregarded the message of Jephthah, which he sent to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:29 -

Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, and Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:30 - Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, “If You will indeed give the Ammonites into my hand,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:32 - Then Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight with them; and the LORD gave them into his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:34 -

Then Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, and this is what he saw: his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. And she was his only child; except for her he had no son or daughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:40 - that the daughters of Israel went yearly to tell the story of the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.

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The men of [the tribe of] Ephraim were summoned [to action], and they crossed over to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight with the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? [For that] we will burn your house down upon you.”

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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 major conflict with the Ammonites, and when I called you [for help], you did not rescue me from their hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:4 - Then Jephthah assembled all the men of Gilead and fought with [the tribe of] Ephraim; and the men of Gilead defeated Ephraim, because they had said, “You Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim, in the midst of [the tribes of] Ephraim and Manasseh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:7 -

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:11 - “Then the LORD sent Jerubbaal (Gideon) and [fn]Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel, and He rescued you from the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in security.
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