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caphtor |
2 definitions found From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Caphtor a chaplet, the original seat of the Philistines (Deut. 2:23; Jer. 47:4; Amos 9:7). The name is found written in hieroglyphics in the temple of Kom Ombos in Upper Egypt. But the exact situation of Caphtor is unknown, though it is supposed to be Crete, since the Philistines seem to be meant by the Cherethites" in 1 Sam. 30:14 (see also 2 Sam. 8:18). It may however, have been a part of Egypt, the Caphtur in the north Delta, since the Caphtorim were of the same race as the Mizraite people (Gen. 10:14; 1 Chr. 1:12). From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Caphtor, a sphere, buckle, or hand