CAPHTOR, in Ancient Geography, a town or district of Higher Egypt: and hence the people called Caphtorim or Caphtorei.—Caphtor is an island of Egypt, Ai Caphtor, (Jeremiah); probably one of those in the Nile. Dr Wells supposes it to be Coptos, which stood in a small island. Thence came the Caphtorim or Caphtorei, in Palestine; who with the Philistines conspired to extirpate the Hevæi; and whose name was swallowed up in that of the Philistines.