נֶפֶת
nepheth · H5316 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Place
Meanings
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hill
Meaning unsure; possibly: natural elevation of the land
ExamplesJoshua 17:11 In Issachar and in Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean and its towns and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; the third is Napheth.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁלוֹשׁthree 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 3
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- גְּבוּל gᵉbûwl · H1366 · boundary, territory, wall
- Refers to bounded territory or region; semantically overlaps with נֶפֶת as a geographical designation, though more specifically emphasizes boundaries
In the other Testament 1 word
- χώρα chṓra · G5561 · land, region, territory
- Standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew terms denoting country, region, or territory; widely used in LXX for territorial/geographical concepts
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Landforms001002003
- The word names a district or region, used of an administrative area supplying Solomon's household (1 Kings 4:11), tying the word to a defined tract of territory.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5316. Nepheth [נֶ֫פֶת] noun feminine id.; — only הַנָּ֑פֶת Jos 17:11 (but read…
[נֶ֫פֶת] noun feminine id.; — only הַנָּ֑פֶת Jos 17:11 (but read perhapsהַנָּפֹת, from foregoing, see Di; ᵐ5 Μαφετα, A. Ναφεθα, ᵐ5L Ναφεθ, compare Jos 12:23 [above below II.נָפָה] ᵐ5L Ναφαθδως. — נֹפֶת honey, see נפת.
נוֺצָה see I.נצה.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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