Word

מַמְרֵא

Mamrêʼ · H4471 · Hebrew · proper noun · 10 occurrences

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Place

Mamrefirst named in Genesis 23:176 verses

Person

Mamrefirst named in Genesis 14:133 verses

Meanings

Mamre

An Amorite, the brother of Eshkol and Aner and an ally of Abram

Examples
Genesis 14:13 Then a survivor came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he was residing by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner, and they were allies with Abram.
Genesis 14:24 “I will take nothing except what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their share.”
Mamre

Location with oak trees near Hebron, where Abram (Abraham) pitched his tents

Examples
Genesis 13:18 Then Abram moved his tent and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron; and there he built an altar to the LORD.
Genesis 18:1 Now the LORD appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.
Genesis 23:17 So Ephron’s field, which was in Machpelah, which faced Mamre, the field and the cave which was in it, and all the trees which were in the field, that were within all the confines of its border, were deeded over

How it’s used In 3 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

גּוּרto sojourn 1

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 3 groups

אָחbrother 2
הוּאhe, she, it 1
אֱמֹרִיAmorite 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

8 occurrences in 2 groups

פָּנִיםface, presence, before 5
אֵלוֹןoak 3

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: מַמְרֵא, Mamre, names the Amorite ally of Abram alongside his brothers Aner and Eshcol, who takes his share of the recovered spoils after the battle of the kings.
Names of Locations003001010: מַמְרֵא also names the place, the oaks of Mamre near Hebron, where Abram settles, builds an altar, and where the LORD later appears to Abraham.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4471. Mamre מַמְרֵא proper name, masculine and of a location Mamre, only in Genesis: 1…

H4471. Mamre
מַמְרֵא proper name, masculine and
of a location Mamre, only in Genesis:
1 in J only מַמְרֵא אֵלֹנֵי terebinths of Mamre (proper name, masculine?), Gen 13:18 (defined by בְּחֶבְרוֺן אֲשֶׁר), Gen 18:1 (in both the dwelling-place of Abraham).
2. proper name, masculine in Gen 14:13 (מ ׳אֵלֹנֵי הָאֱמֹרִי), compare Gen 14:24 (where ally of Abraham)
3. proper name, of a location in P: near Abraham's place of burial Gen 23:17; Gen 25:9; Gen 49:30; Gen 50:3; apparently identified with Hebron Gen 23:19; Gen 35:27, compare Di. — ᵐ5 Μαμβρη.
מִמְשַׁח see משׁח.
מֶמְשֶׁ֫לֶת מֶמְשָׁלָה, מִמְשָׁל, see משׁל
[מִמְשָׁק] see משׁק. מַמְתַֿקִּים see מתק.

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 People2 occurrences Names of Locations8 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.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0