H3731

כַּפְתּוֹר

kaph.torN:N--L

Caphtor

§ Caphtor = "a crown" the original home of the Philistines, perhaps on the southwest coast of Asia Minor, maybe in Egypt or close by, or more probably on the island of Crete (TWOT) the island of Crete, homeland or staging area of the Philistines

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

II. כַּפְתּוֺר כַּפְתֹּר proper name, of a territory probably Crete, so Ew Kiep Di^{Gen 10:14} Gie^{Jer 47:4} and others; compare A. J. Evans^{Cretan Pictographs (1895), 100 ff.}; (> ᵐ5. Syriac Version. ᵑ9 ᵑ7. Cappadocia, certainly wrong; Mich Cyprus; Eb^{AgM 127 ff.} and others the coast of the Nile-Delta; WMM^{As.Eu.387 f.} Philistines, originally pirates from southwest coast of Asia Minor, and the Aegean islands); — כַּפְתּוֺר Amos 9:7 (original home of Philistines), כַּפְתֹּר Deut 2:23 (home of Caphtorim, see below); שְׁאֵרִית אִי כַּפְתֹּר Jer 47:4 the rest of the coast-land of Caphtor. — See also כְּרֵתִי below

2 occurrences

Deuteronomy (1), Amos (1)