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What does Jephthah mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Jephthah? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A male given name.
  2. A judge described in the Book of Judges of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
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Of this kind is the war of Jephthah against the ammonites, in defence of their borders.
Jephthah looked expectantly and in silence from one young face to the other.
For Jephthah, Chemosh is obviously as real a personage as Jahveh.
Should Jephthah have broken the vow that sacrificed his daughter?
Jephthah swore to the Lord in Mizpeh of Galeed to sacrifice his only daughter if he won.
The custom of annually bewailing the vanished spirit of fertility is rationalized in Judges as a lamentation for the hapless daughter of Jephthah.

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