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Judges 11:1
“Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
יִפְתָּחYiphtâch · yif-tawkh'
H3316 · Hebrew
H3316 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Jiphtach, an Israelite; also a place in Palestine
- Derivation
- from H6605 (פָּתַח); he will open;
- KJV renderings
- Jephthah, Jiphtah.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- יִפְתָּ֣ח — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 30 times in the Hebrew Bible.Joshua 15:43Judges 11:2Judges 11:3Judges 11:3Judges 11:5
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read יִפְתָּח here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.