Midvash

יְפֻנֶּהYᵉphunneh

Jephunneh, the name of two Israelites

Pronunciation: yef-oon-neh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3312

Meanings

1. father of Caleb (Numbers 13:6; Numbers 14:6; Joshua 14:6)

2. Asherite (1 Chronicles 7:38)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 16 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 13:6 Judah Caleb son of Jephunneh
  • Numbers 14:6 Two of the men who had explored the land, Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, tore their clothing.
  • Numbers 14:30 You will not enter and occupy the land I swore to give you. The only exceptions will be Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
  • Numbers 14:38 Of the twelve who had explored the land, only Joshua and Caleb remained alive.
  • Numbers 26:65 For the Lord had said of them, “They will all die in the wilderness.” Not one of them survived except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
  • Numbers 32:12 The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they have wholeheartedly followed the Lord.’
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).