Japhletite
יַפְלֵטִיStrong’s H3311yaphleti (yaph-le-ti)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Yaphleti is the Hebrew word usually translated “japhletite”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer; and the goings out thereof are at the sea.”
Meaning
- Someone descended from Japhlet who was a man of the tribe of Asher living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at Jos.16.3
How it's translated
- the japhletite 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
יַפְלֵטִי yaphleti · Japhletite
Someone descended from Japhlet who was a man of the tribe of Asher living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at Jos.16.3; son of: Heber (H2268); brother of: Shomer (H7763H), Hotham (H2369) and Shua (H7774); father of: Pasach (H6457), Bimhal (H1118) and Ashvath (H6220) Group of yaph.let (יַפְלֵט "Japhlet" H3310) § Japhleti see Japhlet = "let him escape" descendants of Asher of the family of Japhlet who lived on the southwest border of Ephraim. Used as location
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.