Midvash

כַּפְתֹּרִיKaphtôrîy

Cretans (Genesis 10:14; 1 Chronicles 1:12; Deuteronomy 2:23)

Pronunciation: kaf-to-ree' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3732

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 10:14 Pathrusites, Casluhites, and the Caphtorites, from whom the Philistines came.
  • Deuteronomy 2:23 A similar thing happened when the Caphtorites from Crete invaded and destroyed the Avvites, who had lived in villages in the area of Gaza.)
  • 1 Chronicles 1:12 Pathrusites, Casluhites, and the Caphtorites, from whom the Philistines came.

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).