Hebrew word · H6084

עׇפְרָה

'aferah

Ophrah

Appears 8 times in 8 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

Ophrah = "fawn"

a place in Manasseh, native place of Gideon; probably located close to Shechem

Also named: cha.pha.ra.yim (חֲפָרַיִם "Hapharaim" H2663)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Joshua · 1
  1. Joshua 18:23 וְעָפְרָֽה׃ and Ophrah

    Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,

Judges · 5
  1. Judges 6:11 בְּעָפְרָ֔ה [was] in Ophrah

    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.

    Here: Gideon's home town in Manasseh's territory. It is a different place from the Benjaminite Ophrah, and its exact site is uncertain.

  2. Judges 6:24 בְּעָפְרָ֖ת [is] in Ophrah

    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.

    Here: Gideon's home town in Manasseh. The ending -at is the form a noun takes when it is tied to the next word ('Ophrah of…'). This is not the Ophrah in Benjamin of Josh 18:23.

  3. Judges 8:27 בְּעָפְרָ֔ה in Ophrah

    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.

    Here: The very place where Gideon's father kept an altar to Baal and where Gideon built an altar to the LORD (6:24-32). A site that had been cleansed becomes a cult centre again.

  4. Judges 8:32 בְּעָפְרָ֖ה in Ophrah

    Later, Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

  5. Judges 9:5 עָפְרָ֔תָה Ophrah towards

    He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.

1 Samuel · 1
  1. 1 Samuel 13:17 עָפְרָ֖ה Ophrah

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

1 Chronicles · 1
  1. 1 Chronicles 4:14 עָפְרָ֑ה Ophrah

    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.

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