delivered; banished
(same as Japhlet)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
the Japhletite. A landmark on the S. border of Ephraim (Jos_16:3). Possibly the name of some ancient tribe formerly there.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
jaf?lē̇-tı̄, jaf-lē?tı̄: the King James Version in Jos_16:3, where Hebrew is היּפלטי, ha-yaphlēṭı̄, ?the Japhletites,? the Revised Version (British and American), a clan said to border on the territory of Joseph, but not mentioned elsewhere.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Japhleti
(Jos_16:3). SEE JAPHLET.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.