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# חֵפֶר

Biblical Hebrew

**Hepher** — used 2 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/lemma_3a_5d7_5b5_5e4_5b6_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֵ֫פֶר²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b5_5e4_5b6_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Canaanitish town, with a king, named just before Aphek Jos 12:17, exact site unknown. 1 K 4:10 in Judah (ארץ ח׳);—on גִּ֫תָּה ח׳ Jos 19:13, גַּת הַח׳ 2 K 14:25, v. גַּת sub יגן.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (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 (2).

## In the verses

[Joshua 12:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.17/#tree)

מֶ֤לֶךְ תַּפּ֙וּחַ֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶ֥לֶךְ חֵ֖פֶר אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Tappuah one the.king of.Hepher one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

[1 Kings 4:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.10/#tree)

בֶּן־חֶ֖סֶד בָּֽאֲרֻבּ֑וֹת ל֥וֹ שֹׂכֹ֖ה וְכָל־אֶ֥רֶץ חֵֽפֶר׃ס

*Word for word:* Ben- Hesed in (the) Arubboth \[belonged\].to him Socoh and all the.land of.Hepher

*JPS 1917:* the son of Hesed, in Arubboth; to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b5_5e4_5b6_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b5_5e4_5b6_5e8/): 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).