CAPITOR, in Ancient Geography, a town or district
of Higher Egypt; and hence the people called Capit-
torim or Capitorei.—Capitor is an island of Egypt,
Ai Capthor (Jeremiah): probably one of those in the
Nile. Dr Wells supposes it to be Coptos, which stood
in a small island. Thence came the Capitatorim or Capit-
toræ, in Palestine; who with the Philistines conspired
to extirpate the Hebrews; and whose name was swal-
lowed up in that of the Philistines.