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HebrewH3716Noun

כְּפִירָה

ke.phi.rah

4Occurrences
H3716Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Kephirah, a place in Palestine

feminine of H3715 (כְּפִיר); the village (always with the art.);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Chephirah = "lioness" a city of the Gibeonites subsequently assigned to the tribe of Benjamin

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

כְּפִירָה appears 4 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
2
Ezra
1
Nehemiah
1

Key Passages

Ezra 2:25BSB

the men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743;

Joshua 18:26BSB

Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,

Joshua 9:17BSB

So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.

Nehemiah 7:29BSB

the men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743;

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.