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# חָפְרַע

Biblical Hebrew

**Pharaoh-hophra** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Pharaoh-hophra [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e4_5b0_5e8_5b7_5e2/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָפְרַע: n.pr.m. Apries [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e4_5b0_5e8_5b7_5e2/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Apries, reigned in Egypt alone, b.c. 589–570 and with Amasis 570–564; named as פַּרְעֹה ח׳ מֶלֶךְ־מִצְרַיִם Je 44:30 Pharaoh Hophraʿ king of Egypt (v. פַּרְעֹה); 4th king of 26th dynasty; 𝔊 Οὐαφρη; Manetho Οὔαφρις; Egyptian Monum. Uaḥ-ȧbra, WiedemannÄgypt. Gesch. 602, 636 ff.; Gesch. Ägypt. 163 ff.; Gk. Ἀπρίης Herodot. ii. 161 etc. (v. Wied Herodot’s 2tes Buch, 569), Diodori. 68; Ἀπρίας Ctesias (Athen. 13:560).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hophra (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 44:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.44.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.44.30/#tree)

כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה הִנְנִ֣י נֹ֠תֵן אֶת־פַּרְעֹ֨ה חָפְרַ֤ע מֶֽלֶךְ־מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ בְּיַ֣ד אֹֽיְבָ֔יו וּבְיַ֖ד מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י נַפְשׁ֑וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר נָתַ֜תִּי אֶת־צִדְקִיָּ֣הוּ מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָ֗ה בְּיַ֨ד נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֧ר מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֛ל אֹיְב֖וֹ וּמְבַקֵּ֥שׁ נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃ס

*Word for word:* thus he.says Yahweh here I \[am\].about.to.give (et) Pharaoh Hophra the.king of.Egypt in the.hand his.enemies his and in the.hand of.\[those.who\].seek life (of).his just as I.gave (et) Zedekiah the.king of.Judah in the.hand of.Nebuchadnezzar the.king of.Babylon enemy his and \[one.who\].sought life his

*JPS 1917:* thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e4_5b0_5e8_5b7_5e2/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).