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# עֵיפָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5891

**Ephah** — used 5 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

Ephah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5891/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵיפָה²: n.pr. gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5891/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. gent. ‘son’ of Midian Gn 25:4 (J) = 1 Ch 1:33, cf. Is 60:6, 𝔊 Γαφερ, Γεφαρ, Γαιφα(ρ). m. name in Judah 1 Ch 2:47, 𝔊 Γαιφα. f. concubine of Caleb 1 Ch 2:46, 𝔊 Γαιφαηλ, A Γαιφα ἡ, 𝔊 L Γαιφα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ephah (3); \[were\] Ephah (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:47](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.47/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.47/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י יָהְדָּ֑י רֶ֧גֶם וְיוֹתָ֛ם וְגֵישָׁ֥ן וָפֶ֖לֶט וְעֵיפָ֥ה וָשָֽׁעַף׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Jahdai \[were\].Regem and Jotham and Geshan and Pelet and Ephah and Shaaph

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.

[Genesis 25:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.4/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֣י מִדְיָ֗ן עֵיפָ֤ה וָעֵ֙פֶר֙ וַחֲנֹ֔ךְ וַאֲבִידָ֖ע וְאֶלְדָּעָ֑ה כָּל־אֵ֖לֶּה בְּנֵ֥י קְטוּרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Midian \[were\].Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah all these \[were\].the.sons of.Keturah

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5891.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5891/): 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).