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חֵפֶר

Chêpher · H2660 · Hebrew · proper noun · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Hepher

    Man; descendant of Machir; tribe of Manasseh

    Examples

    Numbers 26:32 and of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

    Numbers 26:33 Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, only daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

    Numbers 27:1 Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph, came forward; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

  2. Hepher

    Man; son of Ashhur and his wife Naarah; tribe of Judah

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 4:6 Naarah bore to him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.

  3. Hepher

    Hepher, a warrior in the time of David

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 11:36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,

  4. Hepher

    Region

    Examples

    1 Kings 4:10 Ben-hesed in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all the land of Hepher);

  5. Hepher

    Town; territory of Manasseh

    Examples

    Joshua 12:17 the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 2 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

6 occurrences in 3 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Names of People003001007
This is the proper name Hepher, borne by several individuals including a son of Gilead and a descendant of Judah.
Names of Locations003001010
This is also the proper name Hepher, a Canaanite royal city conquered by Israel and later a district under one of Solomon's officers.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2660. Chepher I. חֵ֫פֶר proper name, masculine 1. a Manassite Num 26:32-33, Num 27:1;…
H2660. Chepher
I. חֵ֫פֶר proper name, masculine 1. a Manassite Num 26:32-33, Num 27:1; Jos 17:2-3, ᵐ5 Οφερ.
2 a man of Judah 1Ch 4:6; ᵐ5 Ηφαλ, ᵐ5L Αφερ.
3 one of David's heroes, according to 1Ch 11:36 (but on text see Be VB and Dr 2Sa 23:36).
II. חֵ֫פֶר proper name, of a location 1. Canaanitish town, with a king, named just before Aphek Jos 12:17, exact site unknown.
2 1Ki 4:10 in Judah (ח ׳ארץ); — on ח ׳גִּ֫תָּה Jos 19:13, הַח ׳גַּת 2Ki 14:25, see גַּת below יגן.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Names of People7 occurrencesNames of Locations2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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