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# עׇפְרָה

Biblical Hebrew

**Ophrah** — 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

Ophrah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5c7_5e4_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָפְרָה: n.pr. loc. n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5c7_5e4_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. loc.: in Benj. Jos 18:23 (P), Αφαρ, etc.; 1 S 13:17 Γοφερα; prob. = עֶפְרוֹן 2 and אֶפְרַיִם 6; perhaps mod. eṭ-Ṭayyibeh, c. 4 miles NE. from Bethel, cf. GASmGeogr. 252 BuhlGeogr. 177. in Manasseh, Εφραθα: Ju 6:11; 8:27; cstr. עָפְרַת אֲבִי הָעֶזְרִי 6:24, but עָפְרָה וגו׳ 8:32; c. ה loc. עָפְרָ֫תָה Ju 9:5. n.pr.m. 1 Ch 4:14, Γοφερα, 𝔊L Εφραθ.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Ophrah (5); of Ophrah (1); to (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 18:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.18.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.18.23/#tree)

וְהָעַוִּ֥ים וְהַפָּרָ֖ה וְעָפְרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (the) Avvites and (the) Parah and Ophrah

*JPS 1917:* and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah;

[1 Samuel 13:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.13.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.13.17/#tree)

וַיֵּצֵ֧א הַמַּשְׁחִ֛ית מִמַּחֲנֵ֥ה פְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה רָאשִׁ֑ים הָרֹ֨אשׁ אֶחָ֥ד יִפְנֶ֛ה אֶל־דֶּ֥רֶךְ עָפְרָ֖ה אֶל־אֶ֥רֶץ שׁוּעָֽל׃

*Word for word:* and it.came.out the destroyer from the.camp of.\[the\].Philistines three companies the company one it.turned to the.direction of.Ophrah to the.land of.Shual

*JPS 1917:* And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5c7_5e4_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5c7_5e4_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d4/): 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).