hebrew #3731 - כַּפְתֹּר Kaphtor
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Caphtor Or (Am. 9:7) Kaphtowr {kaf-tore'}; apparently the same as kaphtor; Caphtor (i.e. A wreath-shaped island), the original seat of the Philistines -- Caphtor. see HEBREW kaphtor Englishman's Concordance Caphtor=“a crown” 1) the original home of the Philistines, perhaps on the southwest coast of Asia Minor, maybe in Egypt or close by, or more probably on the island of Crete 2) (TWOT) the island of Crete, homeland or staging area of the Philistines Part of Speech: noun proper locative A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: apparently the same as H3730 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1028 Brown-Driver-Briggs II. כַּפְתּוֺרכַּפְתֹּרproper name, of a territory probably Crete, so Ew Kiep DiGenesis 10:14 GieJeremiah 47:4 and others; compare A. J. EvansCretan Pictographs (1895), 100 ff.; (> ᵐ5. Syriac Version. ᵑ9ᵑ7. Cappadocia, certainly wrong; Mich Cyprus; EbAgM 127 ff. and others the coast of the Nile-Delta; WMMAs.Eu.387 f. Philistines, originally pirates from southwest coast of Asia Minor, and the Aegean islands); — כַּפְתּוֺרAmos 9:7 (original home of Philistines), כַּפְתֹּרDeuteronomy 2:23 (home of Caphtorim, see below); שְׁאֵרִית אִי כַּפְתֹּרJeremiah 47:4the rest of the coast-land of Caphtor. — See also כְּרֵתִי below Englishman's Concordance (References)Strong's Hebrew: 3731. כַּפְתּוֹר (Kaphtor or Kaphtor) — 3 OccurrencesDeuteronomy 2:23 Jeremiah 47:4 Amos 9:7 |