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naphtuhim in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a Hamitic tribe descended from Mizraim (Gen. 10:13). Others identify this word with Napata, the name of the city and territory on the southern frontier of Mizraim, the modern Meroe, at the great bend of the Nile at Soudan. This city was the royal residence, it is said, of Queen Candace (Acts 8:27). Here there are extensive and splendid ruins.

naphtuhim in Smith's Bible Dictionary

(border-people), a Mizraite (Egyptian) nation or tribe mentioned only in the account of the descendants of Noah. #Ge 10:13; 1Ch 1:11| If we may judge from their position in the list Of the Mizraites, the Naphtuhim were possibly settled, at first, either in Egypt or immediately to the west of it.

naphtuhim in Schaff's Bible Dictionary

NAPH'TUHIM , an Egyptian tribe descended from Mizraim. Gen 10:13. NAP'KIN is used in the A.V. in a wider sense than at present - as a little cloth, which is the literal meaning of the word. Luke 19:20.

naphtuhim in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A Mizraite tribe (Genesis 10:13; 1 Chronicles 1:11) coming in order after the Lehabim or Libyans. Niphaiat is Coptic for the country W. of the Nile. on Egypt's N.W. borders, about the Mareotic lake. The Na-petu. the people called "the Nine Bows," are mentioned in the Egyptian monuments (G. Rawlinson). Gesenius from Plutarch (de Isaiah 355) thinks the Naphtuhim were on the W. coast of the Red Sea, sacred to the goddess Nepthys wife of Typhon. Knobel derives Naphtuhim from the deity Phthah.