caphtor

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caphtor - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Caphtor
  a chaplet, the original seat of the Philistines (Deut. 2:23;
  Jer. 47:4; Amos 9:7). The name is found written in hieroglyphics
  in the temple of Kom Ombos in Upper Egypt. But the exact
  situation of Caphtor is unknown, though it is supposed to be
  Crete, since the Philistines seem to be meant by the
  "Cherethites" in 1 Sam. 30:14 (see also 2 Sam. 8:18). It may,
  however, have been a part of Egypt, the Caphtur in the north
  Delta, since the Caphtorim were of the same race as the Mizraite
  people (Gen. 10:14; 1 Chr. 1:12).