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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Zaphon
The name means north, and it was a town of Gad in the Jordan Valley. Some scholars find it again in Judges 12:1, where the Ephraimites gather to confront Jephthah. Nobody has located it.
The name means north, and it was a town of Gad in the Jordan Valley. Some scholars find it again in Judges 12:1, where the Ephraimites gather to confront Jephthah. Nobody has located it.
Zaphon, meaning "north," was a town assigned to the tribe of Gad in the Jordan Valley (Joshua 13:27). Some scholars connect the same Hebrew word in Judges 12:1, traditionally translated "northward," to this same town, understood there as the mustering point for the Ephraimites who confronted Jephthah. Its precise site remains unidentified.
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- Joshua 13:27
