יְפֻנֶּה
Jephunneh
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H3312 appears — 16 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 7 verses
- Numbers 13:6 יְפֻנֶּֽה n Proper Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
- Numbers 14:6 יְפֻנֶּ֔ה n Proper Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes:
- Numbers 14:30 יְפֻנֶּ֔ה n Proper surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Numbers 14:38 יְפֻנֶּ֑ה n Proper But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
- Numbers 26:65 יְפֻנֶּ֔ה n Proper For Yahweh had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. There was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Numbers 32:12 יְפֻנֶּה֙ n Proper save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Yahweh.
- Numbers 34:19 יְפֻנֶּֽה n Proper These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Joshua 5 verses
- Joshua 14:6 יְפֻנֶּ֖ה n Proper Then the children of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh-barnea.
- Joshua 14:13 יְפֻנֶּ֖ה n Proper Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
- Joshua 14:14 יְפֻנֶּ֤ה n Proper Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day; because that he wholly followed Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- Joshua 15:13 יְפֻנֶּ֗ה n Proper To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak (the same is Hebron).
- Joshua 21:12 יְפֻנֶּ֖ה n Proper But the fields of the city, and the villages of it, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
1 Chronicles 3 verses
- 1 Chronicles 4:15 יְפֻנֶּ֔ה n Proper The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the sons of Elah; and Kenaz.
- 1 Chronicles 6:56 יְפֻנֶּֽה n Proper but the fields of the city, and the villages of it, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
- 1 Chronicles 7:38 יְפֻנֶּ֥ה n Proper The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Jephunneh” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name יפנה (Yᵉphunneh). Its earliest occurrence is Numbers 13:6. It turns up in 16 verses across 4 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in Numbers, which alone accounts for 44% of its uses. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3312 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,752
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,752 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 7 verses 44%
- Joshua 5 verses 31%
- 1 Chronicles 3 verses 19%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 16 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 8 verses · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 31%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 19%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Jephunneh 16×
- American Standard Version†: Jephunneh 16×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Jephunneh 16×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Jephunneh 16×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3312 across 16† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3312 across 16† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3312 across 16† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3312 across 16† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. father of Caleb Nu 13:6; 14:6; Jos 14:6, 13; 1 Ch 4:15 + 10 times, Ιεφοννη. e.g. Numbers 13:6
- 2. Asherite 1 Ch 7:38, Ιφινα, A Ιεφιηλ, 𝔊L Ιεφοννη. e.g. 1 Chronicles 7:38
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. (on form cf. LagBN 134);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פנה (pânâh) (H6437) — to turn.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H3312 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יְפֻנֶּ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 4:15 | 4 |
| יְפֻנֶּ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Joshua 14:6 | 3 |
| יְפֻנֶּֽה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:56 | 3 |
| יְפֻנֶּה֙ | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 1:36 | 2 |
| יְפֻנֶּ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Numbers 14:38 | 1 |
| יְפֻנֶּ֗ה | Noun, Proper | Joshua 15:13 | 1 |
| יְפֻנֶּ֤ה | Noun, Proper | Joshua 14:14 | 1 |
| יְפֻנֶּ֥ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 7:38 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3312, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Jephunneh). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Nimble, or a beholder. (1.) The father of Caleb, who was Joshua's companion in exploring Canaan (Num. 13:6), a Kenezite (Josh. 14:14). (2.) One of the descendants of Asher (1 Chr. 7:38).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(for whom a way is prepared).
+ Father of Caleb the spy, appears to have belonged to an Edomitish tribe called Kenezites, from Kenaz their founder. See (Numbers 13:6) etc.; Numb 32:12 etc.; Josh 14:14 etc.; 1Chr 4:15 (B.C. 1530.) + A descendant of Asher, eldest of the three sons of Jether. (1 Chronicles 7:38) (B.C. 1017.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
he that beholds
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 16 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 16 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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