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jephthah
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What does jephthah mean?
proper noun
- A male given name from Hebrew.
- A judge described in the Book of Judges of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
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If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter that I love passing well.
A lesser crime than this is the sacrifice of Jephthah or Agamemnon, where a pious daughter is slain by a father's sword.
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Jacob departed and crossed the Euphrates, and set his face toward Gilead, for the holy spirit revealed to him that God would bring help there to his children in the days of Jephthah.
Nimrod, Theseus, Jason and his Argonauts; Jephthah, David, Cacus, Romulus, Clovis and all his Merovingian descendants; Robert Guiscard, Tancred de Hauteville, Bohemond, and most of the Norman heroes,--were brigands and robbers.