Bible Person
Male · 2 cross references
Naphtuhim is the ancestral name of a people descended from Mizraim in the table of nations. The page uses a person-style entry because the dataset preserves ethnonyms in genealogical form. First appears in Gen 10:13.1
AI summary: Naphtuhim matters because the cross references place the name among the Egypt-related branches in Genesis' account of the nations. Like other ethnonym entries, it expands the Bible's horizon beyond Israel by naming surrounding peoples within a remembered family structure. Taken together, the material presents Naphtuhim as part of Scripture's ordered map of the post-flood world.1
Central Figure
Naphtuhim
A Hamitic tribe descended from Mizraim (Gen.
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. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.