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עֶפְרוֹן

ʻEphrôwn · H6085 · Hebrew · proper noun · 14 occurrences

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Person

This name belongs to 2 places

Meanings

  1. Ephron

    Ephron the Hittite, son of Zohar, from whom Abraham bought a field with the cave of Machpelah to bury his wife Sarah

    Examples

    Genesis 23:8 And he spoke with them, saying, “If you are willing to let me bury my dead out of my sight, listen to me, and plead with Ephron the son of Zohar for me,

    Genesis 23:10 Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham so that the sons of Heth heard, that is, all who entered the gate of his city, saying,

    Genesis 23:13 But he spoke to Ephron so that the people of the land heard, saying, “If you will only please listen to me; I will give the price of the field, accept it from me so that I may bury my dead there.”

  2. cities of Mount Ephron

    Location near the boundary of the territory of Judah

    Examples

    Joshua 15:9 And from the top of the mountain the border turned to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah and proceeded to the cities of Mount Ephron, then the border turned to Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).

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

7 occurrences in 3 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 3 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

4 occurrences in 2 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
עֶפְרוֹן names Ephron, the Hittite from whom Abraham purchased the cave of Machpelah as a burial site for Sarah.
Names of Locations003001010
The same name also identifies Ephron, a mountain range marking part of the boundary of the tribe of Judah.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6085. Ephron עֶפְרוֺן proper name Εφρων: — 1. masculine Hittite, Abraham's time,…
H6085. Ephron
עֶפְרוֺן proper name Εφρων: —
1. masculine Hittite, Abraham's time, according to Gen 23:8, Gen 23:10 (twice in verse); Gen 23:13, Gen 23:16, Gen 23:17; Gen 49:29, עֶפְרֹן Gen 23:6; Gen 25:9; Gen 49:30; Gen 50:13 (all P).
2. location2Ch 13:19 Kt (עֶפְיִן Qr), compare עָפְרָה 1a. 3. mont. ׳הַרעֿ, on northern border of Judah Jos 15:9.
עֶפְרַ֫יִן2Ch 13:19 Qr see עֶפְרוֺן 2 above

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 People12 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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