עׇפְרָה
oph.rah
“Ophrah”
Definition
Ophrah, the name of an Israelite and of two places in Palestine
feminine of H6082 (עֹפֶר); female fawn;
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun
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N:N--L
Occurrences
עׇפְרָה appears 8 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.
And raiders went out of the Philistine camp in three divisions. One headed toward Ophrah in the land of Shual,
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.
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.
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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