Bible Person
Meaning: he that beholds · Male · 15 cross references
Jephunneh is remembered chiefly as the father of Caleb, the faithful spy from Judah. Though his own story is brief, his name remains attached to one of the most admired figures in Israel's wilderness generation. First appears in Num 13:6.1
AI summary: Jephunneh matters because the cross references preserve him wherever Caleb's loyalty and inheritance are celebrated. The repeated title "Caleb son of Jephunneh" keeps him rooted in remembered lineage and ties his house to one of the clearest examples of steadfast faith in the Pentateuch and Joshua. In that sense Jephunneh participates in Caleb's significance through enduring identification. Taken together, the material presents Jephunneh as a small but important ancestral anchor in the story of faith-filled perseverance.1
Central Figure
Jephunneh
Meaning: he that beholds
The father of Caleb, who was Joshua’s companion in exploring Canaan (Num.
The father of Caleb, who was Joshua’s companion in exploring Canaan (Num. 13:6), a Kenezite (Josh. 14:14). 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
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.