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עׇפְרָה

ʻOphrâh · H6084 · Hebrew · proper noun · 8 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 places

Person

Meanings

  1. Ophrah

    Location; territory of Benjamin

    Examples

    Joshua 18:23 Avvim, Parah, and Ophrah,

    1 Samuel 13:17 Then raiders came from the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual,

  2. Ophrah

    Location; territory of Manasseh

    Examples

    Judges 6:11 Then the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to save it from the Midianites.

    Judges 8:27 Gideon made it into an ephod, and placed it in his city, Ophrah; but all Israel committed infidelity with it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

  3. Ophrah

    Man; son of Meonothai; tribe of Judah

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 4:14 Meonothai fathered Ophrah, and Seraiah fathered Joab the father of Ge-harashim, for they were craftsmen.

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

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

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 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 Locations003001010
עׇפְרָה names Ophrah, Gideon's hometown in the territory of Manasseh where he built an altar to the LORD.
Names of People003001007
The same name also serves as a personal name, borne by a descendant of Judah in the genealogies of Chronicles.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6084. Ophrah עָפְרָה proper name 1. location: a. in Benjamin Jos 18:23 (P), Αφαρ, etc.;…
H6084. Ophrah
עָפְרָה proper name
1. location: a. in Benjamin Jos 18:23 (P), Αφαρ, etc.; 1Sa 13:7 Γοφερα; probably = עֶפְרוֺן
2 and אֶפְרַיִם
6; perhaps modern e‰-ˆayyibeh, approximately 4 miles northeast from Bethel, compare GASmGeogr. 252 BuhlGeogr. 177.
b. in Manasseh, Εφραθα: Jdg 6:11; Jdg 8:27; construct הָעֶזְרִי אֲבִי עָפְרַת Jdg 6:24, but וגו ׳עָפְרָה Jdg 8:32; with ה locative עָפְרָ֫תָה Jdg 9:5.
2. person, masculine in Judah 1Ch 4:14, Γοφερα, ᵐ5L Εφραθ.

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 People1 occurrenceNames of Locations7 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

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