Hebrew word · H5305

נָפִישׁ

nafish

Naphish

Appears 3 times in 3 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man of the Arabs living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.25.15;

son of: Ishmael (H3458);

brother of: Nebaioth (H5032), Kedar (H6938), Adbeel (H0110), Mibsam (H4017), Mishma (H4927), Dumah (H1746), Massa (H4854), Hadad (H2301), Tema (H8485), Jetur (H3195), Kedemah (H6929) and Mahalath (H4258)

§ Naphish or Nephish = "refreshment"

1) the next to last son of Ishmael

2) an Arabian tribe

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

Genesis · 1

  1. Genesis 25:15 נָפִ֖ישׁ Naphish

    Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

1 Chronicles · 2

  1. 1 Chronicles 1:31 נָפִ֖ישׁ Naphish

    Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These were the sons of Ishmael.

  2. 1 Chronicles 5:19 וְנָפִ֖ישׁ and Naphish

    They waged war against the Hagrites, as well as Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab.

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