Lexical Definition

‎יִפְתָּח‎ Yiphtâch (yif-tawkh') Iphtah ^N:N--L
from ‎פָּתַח‎; he will open

Jephthah, Jiphtah.

• § Jephthah or Jiphtah = "he opens"
• Jiphtach, an Israelite
• also a place in Palestine

n pr m
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
n pr loc
2) a city in Judah

See Greek: Ἰεφθάε

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎יִפְתָּח‎ proper name

1. masculine Jephthah, Ιεφθαε (he [God] openeth); — Judg 11:1 (twice in verse) + 26 t. 11, 12, 1Sam 12:11.

2. location in the ‎שְׁפֵלָה‎ Josh 15:43 (P), A ᵐ5^L ιεφθα.

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