Strong's Hebrew #3731 - כַּפְתֹּר Kaphtor (probably a name for Crete)
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. כַּפְתּוֺר כַּפְתֹּר proper 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. ᵑ9 ᵑ7. 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); — כַּפְתּוֺר Amos 9:7 (original home of Philistines), כַּפְתֹּר Deuteronomy 2:23 (home of Caphtorim, see below); שְׁאֵרִית אִי כַּפְתֹּר Jeremiah 47:4 the 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 |