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  Tribe of Naphtali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On this tribe Jacob pronounced the patriarchal blessing, "Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words" (Gen. 49:21).
Naphtali was the most powerful of the northern tribes: Deborah's general Barak, who defeated Sisera, was a member of this tribe.
Naphtali was also the first to suffer from the invasion of Ben-Hadad, king of Syria, in the reigns of Baasha, king of Israel, and Asa, king of Judah (1 Kings 15:20; 2 Chr.
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 Naphtali (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The position of Naphtali in the desert was on the North of the tabernacle with the standard of the camp of Dan, along with the tribe of Asher (Numbers 2:25 ff.).
Hiram the Tyrian artificer is described as "the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali" (1 Kings 7:14).
Their position exposed them to the first brunt of attack by enemies from the North; and in the wars of the kings they bore an important part (1 Kings 15:20; 2 Kings 12:18; 2 Kings 13:22); and they were the first on the West of the Jordan to be carried away captive (2 Kings 15:29).
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 JewishEncyclopedia.com - NAPHTALI, TRIBE OF:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In the march from Sinai the place of Naphtali was with Dan and Asher on the north side of the tent of meeting, as the rear-guard of the host (ib.
Hiram, the famous worker in brass whom Solomon brought from Tyre, was the son of a woman of Naphtali and a man of Tyre (I Kings vii.
Barak, son of Abinoam, of Kedesh-naphtali, was the chosen leader of Israel in the war against Jabin (apparently the second king of that name) of Hazor and his captain Sisera.
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 Biblical people: Naphtali (son of Jacob)
Naphtali was one of the twelve sons of Jacob.
Naphtali was the founder of one of the 12 Tribes of Israel.
The Tribe of Naphtali is praised for bravery in the Song of Deborah (Judges 5:18) in defeating Sisera and the Canaanites.
www.aboutbibleprophecy.com /p124.htm   (302 words)

  
 Tribal Identifications: Naphtali by Yair Davidiy
Chinese sources13 indicate that a portion of the Naphtali were in Serica (to the far east of Scythia) and these may possibly be the SIZYGES (Sigini) mentioned by Ptolemy who were in proximity to the Damnae (of Dan), the Chatae Scythae, and the Achassa.
Jezer, son of Naphtali, is connected to the Vraesan of Denmark and from the Danish isle of Fyne, the Vraesi are believed to have migrated en-masse to Britain34.
From east Scythia the Naphtali migrated to Norway and the Danes to Denmark.
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 Apocalypse Revealed (Whitehead)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
By "Naphtali" in the highest sense, is signified the proper power of the Lord's Divine Human; in the spiritual sense, temptation and victory; and, in the natural sense, resistance by the natural man; for he was named from wrestlings.
But "Naphtali" here signifies the perception of use, and what use is, because it follows in the series after Asher, by whom is signified the love of uses; and also because they who have conquered in temptation, have an interior perception of uses; for by temptations the interiors of the mind are opened.
Naphtali is satisfied with good pleasure, and full with the blessing of Jehovah; possess thou the west and the south (Deut.
www.theheavenlydoctrines.org /static/d10964/354.htm   (315 words)

  
 Dafna Naphtali's Sample Max/MSP Patch
With her custom software Naphtali controls all parameters of processing simultaneously, quickly shifting between the extreme ranges of these parameters (highest to lowest pitch shift, long to very short delay, i.e.) using a foot pedal or computer algorithm.
Throughout the rest of the piece she continues to use this algorithm with other parameter sets to sample and repeat (and change delay of) various words phrases and vocalisms during the trance section.
Naphtali continues her Eventide-MAX work with many musicians around New York City including the pianist Kathleen Supové and her husband, endangered-guitarist Hans Tammen, as well as with her own improv ensemble CoLLiSioN.
www.whatbat.org /how/spex/dafnaMAX.html   (396 words)

  
 Bible Study - Naphtali
Naphtali, from the Hebrew pronounced naf-taw-lee, meaning wrestling, or struggle, was the sixth son of Jacob/Israel (see Children of Jacob), the second son of his concubine (see Concubines) Bilhah, the handmaid of Rachel.
Very little is recorded of Naphtali himself, however his descendants, the Israelite tribe of Naphtali, were well-known in Bible History.
The birth of Naphtali (and all of the other sons of Israel, except the youngest, Benjamin, who was born near Bethlehem) occurred during the time when Jacob was with Laban in Haran, a city in Mesopotamia which is today part of Syria (see Jacob and Laban):
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 bible.org: ISBE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The position of Naphtali in the desert was on the North of the tabernacle with the standard of the camp of Dan, along with the tribe of Asher (Nu 2:25 ff).
Prince Pedahel ben Ammihud was chosen from Naphtali to assist in the division of the land (Nu 34:28).
Hiram the Tyrian artificer is described as "the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali" (1 Ki 7:14).
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 JewishEncyclopedia.com - NAPHTALI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
21) the passage which concerns Naphtali has reference to the qualities of the tribe, rather than to those of the individual.
"Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words"; i.e.
According to the Targums (pseudo-Jonathan and Jerusalem), Naphtali was a swift runner and came first to Jacob with the good news that Joseph was alive.
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 Naphtali   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Naptali was the son of Jacob and Rachel's maidservant Bilhah and the father of the tribe of Naphtali, one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
The tribe of Naphtali settled in northern Canaan and were described as brave soldiers in the Song of Deborah (Judges 5:18).
Naphtali was given his name because Rachel said "With great wrestlings have I wrestled my sister" (Genesis 30:8).
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Naphtali.html   (88 words)

  
 Business Wire: ITG Appoints Howard C. Naphtali as Chief Financ... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Naphtali will replace J. Randy MacDonald, who served as ITG's CFO since 1994 and is resigning to pursue other opportunities.
Prior to his employment with ITG, Naphtali served as SVP and Chief Operating Officer of Quotron Systems, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Reuters America Inc.) and SVP and Chief Financial Officer of Reuters America Inc. Prior to that, he was an SVP and Chief Financial Officer at ITM Corporation.
Naphtali received his B.S. in Accounting from Brooklyn College in 1975 and his C.P.A. from New York State in 1977.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:59640816&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (418 words)

  
 Publications of Dr. Naphtali David Rishe
Goce Trajcevski, Ouri Wolfson, Cao Hu, Hai Lin, Fengli Zhang, Naphtali Rishe.
Naphtali Rishe, Artyom Shaposhnikov, Scott Graham, Gustavo Palacios.
Ragae Ghaly, Wang Ling, Naphtali Rishe, Doron Tal.
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 Naphtali ben Yaacov Avinu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Naphtali was the Son of Jacob the Patriarch and Bilhah.
Naphtali was born on the 5th of Tishrei and died on the same day at the age of 133 (Yalkut Shimoni, Shemot 162).
Naphtali was buried in Kedesh Naftali (Eretz Yisrael), which was given to his sons as an inheritance
judaicaplus.com /Tzadikim/naftali.htm   (221 words)

  
 Naphtali, Tribe of (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
The territory of Naphtali extended to about 800 square miles, being the double of that of Issachar.
The region around Kedesh, one of its towns, was originally called Galil, a name afterwards given to the whole northern division of Canaan.
Thus the kingdom of Israel came to an end (B.C. Naphtali is now almost wholly a desert, the towns of Tiberias, on the shore of the Lake of Galilee, and Safed being the only places in it of any importance.
www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/naphtalitribeof.html   (367 words)

  
 Naphtali
It is necessary first to explain the position of the towns of Naphtali, and then the territory in general.
It is said in Joshua 19:33, "And their coast was from Chelef, from Aylon Bezaanannim, and Adami Hannekeb, and Jabne'el, unto Lakkum, and the outgoings thereof were at the Jordan." But of all the names of these places, there is not a vestige left at present in the country.
Kedesh קדש is the village Kudes, situated on the mountains of Naphtali, 5 English miles northwest from Lake Semechonitis, and 20 miles north from Zafed.
www.jewish-history.com /palestine/naphtali.html   (2398 words)

  
 Numbers 34:28 Of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince
And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, a chief, Pedahel, the son of Ammihud.
and for the tribe of the children of Naphtali, a prince, Phedahel the son of Ammihud.
bible.cc /numbers/34-28.htm   (157 words)

  
 The Odd Couple   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
As Naphtali and I were strolling through the mall, his eyes became transfixed on a stretch limousine-SUV that was on display outside of Banana Republic.
Naphtali put the cameras in his bag and said in a respectable English "Thank you." I told him that he was starting to become a real Canadian because he was very politely thanking everyone.
I dropped Naphtali off at the house where he was staying, all the while trying to digest the message that he had imparted to me. I used to think that the only way the Jewish people would truly become unified was if we were all the same.
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 Judaism 101 - Naphtali - A Glossary of Basic Jewish Terms and Concepts - OU.ORG
According to “Yalkut Shimoni,” Shemot 162, Naphtali was born on the fifth of Tishrei, and lived 133 years.
According to Gemara Sotah 13a, Naphtali was fleet of foot.
Naphtali was buried in “Kedesh Naphtali,” that was part of his tribal inheritance in “Eretz Yisrael.”
www.ou.org /about/judaism/naphtali.htm   (339 words)

  
 Apocalypse Explained (Whitehead)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This is evident from what is represented and thence signified by "Naphtali" and his tribe, as meaning temptation and the state after it; and as temptations occur for the sake of regeneration, regeneration too is signified by "Naphtali." (That those who are regenerated undergo temptations see in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem, n.
"Naphtali" here signifies the state after temptation, which state is full of joy from affection, that the spiritual and the natural, and good and truth, have been conjoined, for these are conjoined by temptations; "a hind let loose" signifies the freedom of the natural affection; "giving sayings of elegance," signifies gladness of mind.
[5] In the highest sense however "Zebulun and Naphtali" signify the uniting of the Divine and the Human in the Lord, for the highest sense treats solely of the Lord, in general of the glorification of His Human, and the subjugation of the hells, and the arranging of the heavens by Him.
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 Kedesh Naphtali - Walking in Their Sandals - location profile
Two cities were called Kedesh in the region allotted to the tribe of Naphtali, one in Upper Galilee and the other above the southwestern coast of the Sea of Galilee.
The Kedesh near the Sea of Galilee was located on the ridge about a mile and a half from the shore, just northwest of the outlet of the Jordan River at the southern end of the lake.
Later it was the place where Barak and Deborah rallied the troops of Zebulun and Naphtali to fight against their Canaanite oppressors.
www.ancientsandals.com /overviews/kedesh_naphtali.htm   (310 words)

  
 Naphtali   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Naphtali, full brother to Dan is the second son of Bilhah, Rachel's servant.
The dominant tone of this window is lemon yellow, fused over light gray.
The eagle's gesture of menace or defiance may be an allusion to the origin of the word - Naphtali, which means "I have fought."
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 DBLP: Naphtali Rishe
Naphtali Rishe, Armando Barreto, Maxim Chekmasov, Dmitry Vasilevsky, Scott Graham, Sonal Sood, Ouri Wolfson: Object ID Distribution and Encoding in the Semantic Binary Engine.
Bryon K. Ehlmann, Gregory A. Riccardi, Naphtali Rishe, Jinyu Shi: Specifying and Enforcing Association Semantics via ORN in the Presence of Association Cycles.
Naphtali Rishe: Interval-based approach to lexicograhpic representation and compression of numeric data.
informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/r/Rishe:Naphtali.html   (1109 words)

  
 Comparative Listings of the Tribes of Israel
From the sons of Naphtali according to their families; from Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; from Guni, the family of the Gunites; 49.
These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were counted of them were forty five thousand and four hundred.
And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, and full with the blessing of the Lord; possess you the west and the south.
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 Naphtali   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
They seem to >be part of a larger document dealing with Naphtali which may >have been known, in some form or another, to R. Moshe ha- >Darshan (Narbonne, eleventh century).
One possibility (since wild surmises are allowed here) is that the second half of Jacob's blessing to Naphtali describes him as a visionary.
Two verses in Tobit may support (with difficulty) the role of Naphtali as a prophet.
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 Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VIII
The record of the testament of Naphtali, what things he ordained at the time of his death in the hundred and thirty-second year of his life.
When his sons were gathered together in the seventh month, the fourth day of the month, he, being yet in good health, made them a feast and good cheer.
I was born from Bilhah; and because Rachel dealt craftily, and gave Bilhah in place of herself to Jacob, and she bore me upon Rachel's lap, therefore was I called Naphtali.
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 Tribe of Dan by Yair Davidiy
It is noticeable that quite often the Tribes of Naphtali and Dan were interwoven and that both appear to have been present in the Scythian Naphtalite group.
In the Land of Israel the Tribe of Dan in the south bordered Ephraim, Benjamin, and Judah.
That portion of Menasseh adjoining Dan in the North on its eastern side was dominated by Gilead and within Gilead (who was the son of Machir son of Menasseh) was a band from JUDAH headed by YAIR ("Jair" in 1-Chronicles 2; 18-23).
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 NAPHTALI - LoveToKnow Article on NAPHTALI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Naphtali and Dan are brothers, perhaps partly on geographical grounds, but Dan also had a seat in the south (south-west of Ephraim), and the name of the mother Bilhah is apparently connected with Bilhan, an Edomite and also a Benjamite name (Gen. xxxvi.
For the view connecting Naphtali (perhaps a geographical rather than a tribal term), or rather its Israelite inhabitants, with the south see the full discussion by H. Hogg, Ency.
To properly cite this NAPHTALI article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
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 Holy Spirit Interactive: Bible Discovery - Naphtali
Naphtali was the sixth son of Jacob, and the second son born to Bilhah, Rachel's handmaiden.
Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.
Naphtali: (means "that struggles or fights") The sixth son of Jacob (with Bilhah)
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 Imber, Naphtali Herz --  Encyclopædia Britannica
In the Berlin of Frederick II the Great, young intellectuals from Poland and elsewhere, brought in as teachers, met representatives of the European Enlightenment; they came under the influence of Moses Mendelssohn and also met some representatives of Italian and Dutch Hebrew cultures.
One, a Dane, Naphtali Herz Wessely, who had spent some time in Amsterdam, wrote works on...
By far the most outstanding figure of the 18th-century Jewish Enlightenment was the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, who, while remaining a devoted adherent of Orthodox Judaism, turned away from the traditional Jewish preoccupation with the Talmud and its literature to the intellectual world of the European Enlightenment, of which he became the foremost Jewish...
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