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II. כַּפְתּוֺר כַּפְתֹּר proper name [of a territory] probably Crete, so Ew Kiep Di ^{Gen 10:14} Gie ^{Jer 47:4} and others; compare A. J. Evans^{Cretan Pictographs (1895), 100 ff.}; (> ᵐ5 . Syriac Version. ᵑ9 ᵑ7 . Cappadocia, certainly wrong; Mich Cyprus; Eb^{AgM 127 ff.} and others the coast of the Nile-Delta; WMM^{As.Eu.387 f.} Philistines, originally pirates from southwest coast of Asia Minor, and the Aegean islands); — כַּפְתּוֺר Amos 9:7 (original home of Philistines), כַּפְתֹּר Deut 2:23 (home of Caphtorim, see below); שְׁאֵרִית אִי כַּפְתֹּר Jer 47:4 the rest of the coast-land of Caphtor. — See also כְּרֵתִי below