HebrewH6084Noun

עׇפְרָה

oph.rah

8Occurrences
H6084Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Ophrah, the name of an Israelite and of two places in Palestine

feminine of H6082 (עֹפֶר); female fawn;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Ophrah = "fawn" a town of Benjamin approximately 5 miles (8 km) east of Bethel Also named: bet le.aph.rah (*בֵּית לְעַפְרָה *"Beth-le-aphrah" H1036)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

עׇפְרָה appears 8 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Judges
5
1 Chronicles
1
1 Samuel
1
Joshua
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 4:14BSB

Meonothai was the father of Ophrah, and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of those living in Ge-harashim, which was given this name because its people were craftsmen.

1 Samuel 13:17BSB

And raiders went out of the Philistine camp in three divisions. One headed toward Ophrah in the land of Shual,

Judges 6:11BSB

Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

Judges 6:24BSB

So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 8:27BSB

From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

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