Bible Names

Japhia: meaning of the name

Japhia means “enlightening; appearing.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Japhia in Hebrew and Greek

יָפִיעַ H3309

Yâphîyaʻ (yaw-fee'-ah) — Japhia, the name of a Canaanite, an Israelite, and a place in Palestine

from H3313 (יָפַע); bright;

People named Japhia in the Bible

Places named Japhia

Japhia in Scripture

“Japhia” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • Joshua 10:3

    Wherefore Adoni–zedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,

  • Joshua 19:12

    And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth–tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,

  • 2 Samuel 5:15

    Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

  • 1 Chronicles 3:7

    And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

  • 1 Chronicles 14:6

    And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,