Νεφθαλείμ
Nephthaleim, Naphtali
Translated by Nicholas Fincher2 Aug 2003Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
A name of a city.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νεφθαλείμ· ὄνομα πόλεως.
Betacode
*nefqalei/m: o)/noma po/lews.
Notes
- Ths Suda's headword Nephthaleim is the Septuagint form of נפתלי, a word we are more familiar with as Naphtali.
In fact Naphtali was not a city but a tribe, then also a territory. For the tribe see Genesis 49:21 and elsewhere. For the district see Joshua 19:32-39. It was in the north-east of the Hebrew kingdom and reached to Lake Galilee.
Jesus went to Capernaum on the borders of Zebulon and Naphtali. See Matthew 4:13.
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Revision history6 revisions · last 30 Oct 2020
- removed link — Catharine Roth
- coding; another keyword — David Whitehead
- tweaks — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Added Hebrew. — Raphael Finkel
- supplemented headword; added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Nicholas Fincher