yiftāḥ יִפְתָּח ‘Jephthah’ (Hebrew)
Etymology?:
from pātaḥ פָּתַח ‘to open / to engrave’
Roots:
פתח
yiftāḥ pr n m pers + pr n loc
Jephthah or Jiphtah = "he opens"
n pr m
1) a son of Gilead and a concubine and the judge who defeated the Ammonites; after the victory because of a vow taken before the battle he sacrificed his daughter as a burnt offering
n pr loc
2) a city in Judah