Japhia
ya.phi.a designates people, including a king of Lachish, and also a place reached by a boundary line.
The attested proper-name use is chiefly for people: it occurs in lists of names and for the king of Lachish; one occurrence identifies a place to which a boundary ascends.
Senses in use
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Personal name · dominant
The form is tagged as a proper noun in name lists: in 1 Chronicles 14:6 the APB renders “Nogah, Nepheg, and Japhia,” and in 1 Chronicles 3:7 it renders the same sequence. In 2 Samuel 5:15 it appears among “Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, and Japhia,” while Joshua 10:3 identifies the bearer as “Japhia king of Lachish.”
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Place named on a boundary · rare
In Joshua 19:12, the proper-noun form follows the boundary's movement: the APB renders that it “ascended to Japhia.” The clause presents the name as a destination or point along the described border.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the form as “Japhia” in every cited verse. Its surrounding clauses distinguish name-list and royal uses from the boundary destination in Joshua 19:12.