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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 - Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:1 - Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:2 - And Gilead’s wife also 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, for 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 fellows collected around Jephthah and went out with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:5 - And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring 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, that we may fight against the Ammonites.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:7 - But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and drive me out of 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 to you now, that you may go with us and fight against the Ammonites and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9 - Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight against the Ammonites, and the LORD gives them over to me, I will 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 witness between us, if we do not do as you say.”

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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 spoke all his words before the LORD at Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:12 - Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, “What do you have against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel on coming up from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably.”

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

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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 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 did not listen to the words of Jephthah that he sent to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:29 - Then the Spirit of the LORD was upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:30

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:32 - So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the LORD gave them into his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:34 - Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. 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 year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1 - The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:2 - And Jephthah said to them, “I and my people had a great dispute with the Ammonites, and when I called you, 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 gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:7 - Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:11

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