A name from Scripture
Jephthah
JEF-thuh
Meaning
He opens; God opens
Hebrew origin · Boy · First in Judges
What it points to
Jephthah — rejected, recalled, and ultimately remembered in faith — teaches that God uses the outcast and the overlooked. But his rash vow warns: never promise God something you haven't thought through.
Verses · King James Version
“Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot.”
Judges 11:1
“And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae.”
Hebrews 11:32