Caphtor

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Caphtor
     a chaplet, the original seat of the Philistines (Deut. 2:23;
     Jer. 47:4; Amos 9:7). The name is found written in hieroglyphics
     in the temple of Kom Ombos in Upper Egypt. But the exact
     situation of Caphtor is unknown, though it is supposed to be
     Crete, since the Philistines seem to be meant by the


     "Cherethites" in 1 Sam. 30:14 (see also 2 Sam. 8:18). It may,
     however, have been a part of Egypt, the Caphtur in the north
     Delta, since the Caphtorim were of the same race as the Mizraite
     people (Gen. 10:14; 1 Chr. 1:12).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Caphtor, a sphere, buckle, or hand