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# עֶפְרוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6085

**Ephron** — used 12 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

Ephron [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6085/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֶפְרוֹן: n.pr. loc. mont. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6085/#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, 9 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ephron (9); of Ephron (3).

## In the verses

[Genesis 23:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.14/#tree)

וַיַּ֧עַן עֶפְר֛וֹן אֶת־אַבְרָהָ֖ם לֵאמֹ֥ר לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Ephron (et) Abraham (cmp) to him

*JPS 1917:* And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him:

[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

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6085/): 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).