H3732 H3732
Caphtorites, people from Caphtor, ancestors of the Philistines
The ethnic designation for inhabitants of Caphtor, listed in the Table of Nations as descendants of Mizraim (Egypt). Historical and archaeological evidence suggests these were Aegean peoples, possibly from Crete, who migrated to the southern Levantine coast and became the Philistines. Their dispossession of the Avvim people established the Philistine pentapolis that would later clash with Israel.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Genesis 10:14 (= 1 Chronicles 1:12) lists Caphtorim among Mizraim's descendants in the Table of Nations, showing genealogical-geographical connections. Deuteronomy 2:23 describes the Caphtorim as destroyers of the Avvim who lived in villages near Gaza, explaining Philistine territorial origins. The gentilics (כַּפְתֹּרִים) mark them as a distinct ethnic group whose migration shaped Levantine geopolitics. Translations transliterate consistently (Spanish Caftorim, German Kaftoriter), treating this as ethnographic rather than common terminology. 3×
AR["الْ-كَفْتُورِيمُ", "الْكَفْتُورِيُّونَ", "كَفْتوريم"]·ben["কপ্তোরীয়দের", "কফ্তোরীম", "কফ্তোরীয়রা"]·DE["Caphtorim", "[כפתרים]", "die-Kaftoriter"]·EN["Caphtorim", "Kaphtorim"]·FR["Caphtorim", "[כפתרים]"]·heb["כפתורים", "כפתרים"]·HI["कप्तोरी", "कप्तोरीम-को", "कफ्तोरी"]·ID["orang-Kaftor", "orang-Kaftorim"]·IT["Caphtorim", "[כפתרים]"]·jav["tiyang-Kaftor", "tiyang-Kaftorim"]·KO["가반도르인들이", "갑도림"]·PT["Kaftorim", "caftorins"]·RU["Кафторийцев", "Кафторим"]·ES["Caftorim", "Kaftorím", "caftoreos"]·SW["Kaftorimu", "Wakaftori"]·TR["Kaftorim'i", "Kaftorlular", "Kaftorluları"]·urd["کفتوریم", "کفتوریوں-نے"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [כַּפְתֹּרִי] adj.gent., only pl. as subst. כַּפְתֹּרִים Cretans; Gn 10:14 (J) = 1 Ch 1:12; as expellers of the ‘Awwim’ from their homes about Gaza, Dt 2:23.