yāfīʿa יָפִיעַ ‘Japhia’ (Hebrew)
Etymology?:
from yāfaʿ יָפַע ‘to shine’
Roots:
יפע
yāfīʿa pr n loc + pr n m pers
Japhia = "shining"
n pr loc
1) a town on the border of Zebulun and Issachar
1a) perhaps modern 'Yafa'
n pr m
2) the king of Lachish at the time of the conquest of Canaan by Joshua
3) a son of David by a concubine