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# חֵפֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2660

**Hepher** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Hepher [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2660/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֵ֫פֶר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2660/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a Manassite Nu 26:32, 33; 27:1 Jos 17:2, 3, 𝔊 Οφερ. a man of Judah 1 Ch 4:6; 𝔊 Ηφαλ, 𝔊L Αφερ. one of David’s heroes, according to 1 Ch 11:36 (but on text v. Be VB and Dr 2 S 23:36).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Hepher (4); Hepher (3).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 11:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.36/#tree)

חֵ֚פֶר הַמְּכֵ֣רָתִ֔י אֲחִיָּ֖ה הַפְּלֹנִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Hepher the Mekerathite Ahijah the Pelonite

*JPS 1917:* Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite;

[Numbers 26:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.32/#tree)

וּשְׁמִידָ֕ע מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַשְּׁמִידָעִ֑י וְחֵ֕פֶר מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַֽחֶפְרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and Shemida the.clan of the.Shemidaite\[s\] and Hepher the.clan of the.Hepherite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* and of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2660.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2660/): 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).