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title: יַפְלֵטִי — Japhletite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יַפְלֵטִי (3311), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Japhletite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יַפְלֵטִי

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«יַפְלֵטִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Japhletite** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3311 · **BDB:** יַפְלֵטִי

### Glosses

the.Japhletite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Japhletite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3311/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3311/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. c. art. as n. coll. הַיּ׳ the Japhlites Jos 16:3, family or clan on SW. border of Ephraim; Απταλειμ, A Ιεφαλθι, 𝔊L Ιεφλητι.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יַפְלֵטִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3311/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 16:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.16.3/)

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וְיָֽרַד־יָ֜מָּה אֶל־גְּב֣וּל הַיַּפְלֵטִ֗י עַ֣ד גְּב֧וּל בֵּית־חוֹרֹ֛ןבֵּית־חוֹרֹ֛ן תַּחְתּ֖וֹן וְעַד־גָּ֑זֶר וְהָי֥וּ תֹצְאֹתָ֖יו יָֽמָּה׃

*Word for word:* and it.goes.down westward to the.border of the.Japhletite\[s\] to the.border of Beth.Horon lower and to Gezer and they.are extremities its sea to.\[the\]

*JPS 1917:* And it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, unto the border of Beth-horon the nether, even unto Gezer; and the goings out thereof were at the sea.

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