This is the name of the place Machpelah: A cave near Hebron; burial place of patriarchs.
Definition
from H3717; a fold; Makpelah, a place in Palestine
Traditional renderings: Machpelah.
Traditional renderings: Machpelah.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
6 total
- Genesis 23:9הַמַּכְפֵּלָה֙ · of Machpelah…to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.”
- Genesis 23:17בַּמַּכְפֵּלָ֔ה · at MachpelahSo Ephron’s field at Machpelah near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the boundaries of the field were deeded over
- Genesis 23:19הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֛ה · at MachpelahAfter this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 25:9הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֑ה · of MachpelahHis sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
- Genesis 49:30הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֛ה · of MachpelahThe cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
- Genesis 50:13הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֑ה · at MachpelahThey carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.