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# מַכְפֵּלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4375

**Machpelah** — used 6 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

Machpelah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4375/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַכְפֵּלָה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4375/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. near Hebron, where the patriarchs and their wives were buried, only in P, always c. art.; שׂדה אשׁר בַּמּ׳ Gn 23:17, מְעָרַת הַמּ׳ the cave of Machpelah v 9, 25:9, מְעָרַת שְׂדֵה הַמּ׳ 23:19; 50:13, מְעָרָה אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׂדֵה הַמּ׳ 49:30.—cf. BuhlGeogr. 160, 161.—(Evidently orig. appell., but meaning dub.; 𝔊 τὸ διπλοῦν; according to Thes = part, lot, portion, as Ethiopic መክፈልት ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: Machpelah (6).

## In the verses

[Genesis 23:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.19/#tree)

וְאַחֲרֵי־כֵן֩ קָבַ֨ר אַבְרָהָ֜ם אֶת־שָׂרָ֣ה אִשְׁתּ֗וֹ אֶל־מְעָרַ֞ת שְׂדֵ֧ה הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֛ה עַל־פְּנֵ֥י מַמְרֵ֖א הִ֣וא חֶבְר֑וֹן בְּאֶ֖רֶץ כְּנָֽעַן׃

*Word for word:* and after thus he.buried Abraham (et) Sarah wife his into the.cave of.the.field of.(the) Machpelah on the.face of.Mamre that \[is\].Hebron in the.land of.Canaan

*JPS 1917:* And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre — the same is Hebron — in the land of Canaan.

[Genesis 25:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.9/#tree)

וַיִּקְבְּר֨וּ אֹת֜וֹ יִצְחָ֤ק וְיִשְׁמָעֵאל֙ בָּנָ֔יו אֶל־מְעָרַ֖ת הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֑ה אֶל־שְׂדֵ֞ה עֶפְרֹ֤ן בֶּן־צֹ֙חַר֙ הַֽחִתִּ֔י אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י מַמְרֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* and they.buried him Isaac and Ishmael sons his into the.cave of.(the) Machpelah to the.field of.Ephron the.son of.Zohar the Hittite which \[is\].on the.face of.Mamre

*JPS 1917:* And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4375.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4375/): 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).