Yaphia יָפִיעַ

From God's Wiki, the Bible topic encyclopedia
Yaphia
יָפִיעַ
Transliterationyaphia
Strong's numberH3309 (H3309I, H3309G, H3309H)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a man
GlossJaphia
Occurrences5 in 5 verses
Most frequent inJoshua (2)

Yaphia (Hebrew יָפִיעַ, Strong's H3309) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Japhia”. It occurs 5 times.

Definition

H3309I: Japhia

A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.5.15;
son of: David (H1732);
brother of: Amnon (H0550), Chileab (H3609), Absalom (H0053), Adonijah (H0138), Shephatiah (H8203), Ithream (H3507), Shammua (H8051H), Shobab (H7727), Nathan (H5416), Solomon (H8010), Ibhar (H2984), Elishua (H0474), Nepheg (H5298H), Elishama (H0476H), Eliada (H0450), Eliphelet (H0467), Tamar (H8559H), Elpelet (H0467I), Nogah (H5052) and Jerimoth (H3406N)
§ Japhia = "shining"
1) a town on the border of Zebulun and Issachar
1a) perhaps modern 'Yafa'
2) the king of Lachish at the time of the conquest of Canaan by Joshua
3) a son of David by a concubine

H3309G: Japhia

A man living before Israel's Monarchy, only mentioned at Jos.10.3
§ Japhia = "shining"
1) a town on the border of Zebulun and Issachar
1a) perhaps modern 'Yafa'
2) the king of Lachish at the time of the conquest of Canaan by Joshua
3) a son of David by a concubine

H3309H: Japhia

§ Japhia = "shining"
a town on the border of Zebulun and Issachar
perhaps modern 'Yafa'

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVjaphia (5)
BSBjaphia (5)

Verses

Every verse with Yaphia, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Joshua

2 Samuel

1 Chronicles

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
Dark mode