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# עֶפְרַיִן

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_5b7_5d9_5b4_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_5b7_5d9_5b4_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: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ephrayin (1).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 13:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.13.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.13.19/#tree)

וַיִּרְדֹּ֣ף אֲבִיָּה֮ אַחֲרֵ֣י יָרָבְעָם֒ וַיִּלְכֹּ֤ד מִמֶּ֙נּוּ֙ עָרִ֔ים אֶת־בֵּֽית־אֵל֙בֵּֽית־אֵל֙ וְאֶת־בְּנוֹתֶ֔יהָ וְאֶת־יְשָׁנָ֖ה וְאֶת־בְּנוֹתֶ֑יהָ וְאֶת־עֶפְרַ֖יִן וּבְנֹתֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and he.pursued Abijah after Jeroboam and he.captured from him cities (et) Bethel Bethel and (et) daughters its and (et) Jeshanah and (et) daughters its and (et) Ephrayin and daughters its

*JPS 1917:* And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.

## 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_5b7_5d9_5b4_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).