Caphtor
Where Caphtor sits on the map, and the 5 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Identified with
- Crete
- Coordinates
- 35.3097, 24.8933
- Mentions
- 5 mentions
Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.
Passages where it appears
5 verses, in biblical order.
Genesis
- Genesis 10:14
and Pathrusim, and Casluhim, from whom came forth the Philistines and the Caphtorim.
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 2:23
Likewise the Hevites, who were living in small villages as far as Gaza, were expelled by the Cappadocians, who went forth from Cappadocia, and they wiped them out and lived in their place.
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 1:12
as well as Pathrusim and Casluhim: from these the Philistines and the Caphtorim went forth.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 47:4
because of the arrival of the day on which all the Philistines will be devastated, and Tyre and Sidon will be destroyed, with all the rest of their helpers. For the Lord has depopulated the Philistines, the remnant of the island of Cappadocia.
Amos
- Amos 9:7
Sons of Israel, are you not like the sons of the Ethiopians to me, says the Lord? Did I not cause Israel to rise up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines out of Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of Cyrene?