Νεφθαλῖται - Stephanos Ethnika

Νεφθαλῖται OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

people

Νεφθαλῖται, ἔθνος κρατῆσαν τῆς ἕω, ὡς Ἰώσηπος. καὶ θηλυκῶς Νεφθαλῖτις.

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Text Details

Entry	#40
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 473.8
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count	10

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἰώσηπος (Josephus)	Antiquitates Judaicae (AJ) · AJ 5,86

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Νεφθαλῖτης	Naphtalites (Naphtali) · people · corrected · Q1348367
Νεφθαλῖτης	a Naphtalite (female) · people · corrected · Q1348367

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	a people who held/took possession of the east/dawn, according to Josephus (AJ 5.86)

Links

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.76

char LCS 27 (47.4%) · word LCS 6 (60.0%)

Stephanos

Νεφθαλῖται, ἔθνος κρατῆσαν τῆς ἕω, ὡς Ἰώσηπος. καὶ θηλυκῶς Νεφθαλῖτις.

Herodian

…καδίας, περὶ οὗ Ξενοφῶν καὶ Ἔφορος καὶ Ἀνδροτίων φασίν. Εὐωνυμίτης ἔθνος Αἰγύπτιον πρὸς τῇ Αἰθιοπίᾳ. Ἀλέξανδρος Αἰθιοπικῶν πρώτῳ. Ἰβηρίτης ὁ καὶ Ἴβηρ ἔθνος. Παρθένιος ἐν Λευκαδίᾳ »Ἰβηρίτῃ πλεύσει ἐν αἰγιαλῷ«. Νεφθαλίτης ἔθνος κρατῆσαν τῆς ἕω, ὡς Ἰώσηπος (A. I. 5, 1). Ὁμηρίτης ἔθνος Αἰθιόπων. Ὀρβίτης ἔθνος Ἰνδικόν, ὡς Ἀπολλόδωρος δευτέρῳ, περὶ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν. Σαυνίτης τῶν Ἰαπύγων ὅμορος. Τρωΐτης ποταμὸς Αἰγύπτου. ἀστίτης. Σοφοκλῆς Ἀλεξάνδρῳ »οὐ γάρ τι θεσμὰ τοῖσιν ἀστίται…