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# עֶפְרוֹן

Biblical Hebrew

**Ephron** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ephron [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b6_5e4_5b0_5e8_5d5_5b9_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֶפְרוֹן: n.pr. loc. mont. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b6_5e4_5b0_5e8_5d5_5b9_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. Εφρων:— m. Hittite, Abr.’s time, according to Gn 23:8, 10(×2), 13, 16, 17; 49:29, עֶפְרֹן 23:6; 25:9; 49:30; 50:13 (all P). loc. 2 Ch 13:19 Kt (עֶפְרַיִן Qr), cf. עָפְרָה 1 a. mont. הַר־ע׳, on N. border of Judah Jos 15:9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: of Ephron (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.9/#tree)

וְתָאַ֨ר הַגְּב֜וּל מֵרֹ֣אשׁ הָהָ֗ר אֶל־מַעְיַן֙ מֵ֣י נֶפְתּ֔וֹחַ וְיָצָ֖א אֶל־עָרֵ֣י הַר־עֶפְר֑וֹן וְתָאַ֤ר הַגְּבוּל֙ בַּעֲלָ֔ה הִ֖יא קִרְיַ֥ת יְעָרִֽים קִרְיַ֥ת יְעָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.turns the border from the.top of the.mountain to the.spring of.the.waters of.Nephtoah and it.goes.out to the.cities of.the.mountain of.Ephron and it.turns the border Baalah that \[is\].Kiriath Jearim

*JPS 1917:* And the border was drawn from the top of the mountain unto the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah — the same is Kiriath-jearim.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b6_5e4_5b0_5e8_5d5_5b9_5df/): 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).