yiftach · Iphtah, Jephthah

What it means

yiftach (יִפְתָּח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Iphtah, Jephthah”.

Iphtah: a town of Judah in the Shephelah. It is the same name as Jephthah: "he opens."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Jephthah ×29
• Iphtah ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Joshua×1
• Judges×28
• 1 Samuel×1

• Joshua 15:43

  Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,

• Judges 11:1

  Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a valiant warrior, and he was the son of a woman, a prostitute; and Gilead fathered Jephthah.

• Judges 11:2

  The wife of Gilead bore him sons; and the sons of the wife grew up and drove out Jephthah and said to him, “You shall not inherit in the house of our father, for you are the son of another woman.”

• Judges 11:3

  Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob; and there gathered around Jephthah empty men, and they went out with him.

• Judges 11:5

  And when the sons of Ammon fought against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob.

• Judges 11:6

  They said to Jephthah, “Come and be our commander, and let us fight against the sons of Ammon.”

• Judges 11:7

  Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did not you hate me and drive me out of the house of my father? Why have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”

• Judges 11:8

  The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “That is why we have now come back to you, so that you may go with us and fight against the sons of Ammon and be our head, over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

• Judges 11:9

  Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me back to fight against the sons of Ammon, and YHWH gives them over before me, I will be your head.”

• Judges 11:10

  The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “YHWH will be the one who hears between us, if we do not do according to your word.”

• Judges 11:11

  So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him over them head and commander; and Jephthah spoke all his words before YHWH at Mizpah.

• Judges 11:12

  Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, saying, “What is there between me and you, that you have come to me to fight in my land?”

• Judges 11:13

  The king of the sons of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took my land when it came up from Egypt, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore return them in peace.”

• Judges 11:14

  Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon,

• Judges 11:15

  and said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the sons of Ammon.

• Judges 11:28

  But the king of the sons of Ammon did not listen to the words of Jephthah that he had sent him.

• Judges 11:29

  The spirit of YHWH came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the sons of Ammon.

• Judges 11:30

  Jephthah made a vow to YHWH and said, “If you will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand,

• Judges 11:32

  Jephthah crossed over to the sons of Ammon to fight against them, and YHWH gave them into his hand.

• Judges 11:34

  Jephthah came to Mizpah, to his house, and there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dances. She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.

• Judges 11:40

  from year to year the daughters of Israel go to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.

• Judges 12:1

  The men of Ephraim were summoned, crossed to Zaphon, and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the sons of Ammon and not call us to go with you? Your house we will burn over you with fire!”

• Judges 12:2

  Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were in a great quarrel with the sons of Ammon, and I cried out to you, but you did not save me from their hand.

• Judges 12:4

  Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim, and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they had said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, Gilead, in the midst of Ephraim, in the midst of Manasseh.”

• Judges 12:7

  Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

• 1 Samuel 12:11

  YHWH sent Jerubbaal and Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hand of your enemies all around, and you lived in security.

And 4 more times.