Bible Person

Caphthorim

Male · 2 cross references

Caphthorim is the ancestral name of a people descended from Mizraim in the table of nations. The page uses a person-style entry for a people-group because the dataset stores ethnonyms and ancestral names together. First appears in Gen 10:14.1

AI summary: Caphthorim matters because the cross references place the name within the Egypt-related branches that help Genesis map the world after the flood. These ethnonym entries widen the biblical horizon beyond Israel to the remembered origins of neighboring peoples. Taken together, the material presents Caphthorim as an ethnonym whose place contributes to the structured geography of nations in Scripture.1