Hebrew word · H3311

יַפְלֵטִי

haiyafleti

Japhletite

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

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

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Joshua · 1

  1. Joshua 16:3 הַיַּפְלֵטִ֗י the Japhletite[s]

    Then it descended westward to the border of the Japhletites as far as the border of Lower Beth-horon and on to Gezer, and it ended at the Sea.

    Here: A clan or local group named only here. Like 'the Archites' in v. 2, it marks land by who lived on it. Who they were is unknown.

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