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CAPPADOCIANS. This name is frequently met with in the books of the Old Testament. But in all these places the Hebrew reads Caphtorim1, whereby we apprehend some ancient People of Crete to be meant, who removed into Palestine, and were there known by the name of Cerethims, and Philistines.
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כפתוריםCaphtorim. ↩
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