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Aphutæi

APHUTÆI, Israelites who returned from the Captivity, and settled in their old Country. There is some probability that the name of Aphutæ1 comes from Jiphtah, a City mentioned in Josh. xv. 43.

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  1. Herod. l. iii. c. 38. Plin. l. viii. c. 46. Strabo l. xvii. ↩

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