עׇפְרָה

oph.rahOphrah
hebrewOld TestamentName of a place8 occurrences4 books8 verses
This name belongs to 3 different people and places in the Bible:
  • Ophrah: Son of Meonothai
  • Ophrah: A town in Benjamin and a place in Manasseh
  • Ophrah: Gideon's hometown in Manasseh; a town in Issachar

Definition

feminine of H6082; female fawn; Ophrah, the name of an Israelite and of two places in Palestine
Traditional renderings: Ophrah.

Glossary entries

Ophrah (Place) Beth-Leaphrah Hapharaim Ophrah (Person)

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

8 total
  1. Joshua 18:23וְעָפְרָֽה׃ · Ophrah
    Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,
  2. Judges 6:11בְּעָפְרָ֔ה · in Ophrah
    Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
  3. Judges 6:24בְּעָפְרָ֖ת · in Ophrah
    So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
  4. Judges 8:27בְּעָפְרָ֔ה · in Ophrah
    From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
  5. Judges 8:32בְּעָפְרָ֖ה · in Ophrah
    Later, Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
  6. Judges 9:5עָפְרָ֔תָה · in Ophrah
    He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.
  7. 1 Samuel 13:17עָפְרָ֖ה · Ophrah
    And raiders went out of the Philistine camp in three divisions. One headed toward Ophrah in the land of Shual,
  8. 1 Chronicles 4:14עָפְרָ֑ה · Ophrah
    Meonothai was the father of Ophrah, and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of those living in Ge-harashim, which was given this name because its people were craftsmen.