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Strong's #3309 - יָפִיעַ
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
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Japhia = “shining”
1) a town on the border of Zebulun and Issachar (noun proper locative)
1a) perhaps modern ‘Yafa’
2) the king of Lachish at the time of the conquest of Canaan by Joshua (noun proper masculine)
3) a son of David by a concubine (noun proper masculine)
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a. a king of Lachish Joshua 10:3, ᵐ5 Ιεφθα, A ᵐ5 L Ιαφ(α)ιε.
b. a son of David 2 Samuel 5:15 (ᵐ5 Ιεφιες, ᵐ5 L Ναφεθ) = 1 Chronicles 3:7 (ᵐ5 Ιανουε A Ιαφιε, ᵐ5 L Αχικαμ) = 1 Chronicles 14:6 (ᵐ5 Ιανουου, A Ιαφιε, ᵐ5 L Ιαβεγ).
2. proper name, of a location on border of Zebulun Joshua 19:12, perhaps = modern Yâfa, 1/2hour from Nazareth, Rob BR ii. 343 f, but ᵐ5 Φαγγαι, Ιαφαψαὶᵐ5 L Ιαφφιε.
יָפִיעַ (“splendid”), [Japhia], pr.n.
(1) of a town in the tribe of Zebulon, Joshua 19:12.
(2) Of several men.
(a) of a king of the city of Lachish, Joshua 10:3.
(b) of a son of David, 2 Samuel 5:15.
