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Lexicon :: Strong's H4375 - maḵpēlâ

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מַכְפֵּלָה
Transliteration
maḵpēlâ
Pronunciation
mak-pay-law'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1019b

Strong’s Definitions

מַכְפֵּלָה Makpêlâh, mak-pay-law'; from H3717; a fold; Makpelah, a place in Palestine:—Machpelah.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's H4375 in the following manner: Machpelah (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's H4375 in the following manner: Machpelah (6x).

  1. Machpelah = "double" or "portion"

    1. the location of a burial cave for the patriarchs, near Hebron

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַכְפֵּלָה Makpêlâh, mak-pay-law'; from H3717; a fold; Makpelah, a place in Palestine:—Machpelah.
STRONGS H4375: Abbreviations
† מַכְפֵּלָה proper name, of a location near Hebron, where the patriarchs and their wives were buried, only in P, always with article; שׂדה אשׁר בַּמּ׳ Genesis 23:17, מְעָדַת הַמּ׳ the cave of Machpelah Genesis 23:9, Genesis 25:9, מְעָרַת שְׂדֵה הַמּ׳ Genesis 23:19; Genesis 50:13, מְעָרָה אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׂדֵה הַמּ׳ Genesis 49:30. — compare BuhlGeogr. 160, 161. — (Evidently originally appellative, but meaning dubious; Greek Version of the LXX τό διπλοῦν; according to Thes = part, lot, portion, as Ethiopic bdb049510).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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Genesis

23:9; 23:17; 23:19; 25:9; 49:30; 50:13

H4375

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4375 matches the Hebrew מַכְפֵּלָה (maḵpēlâ),
which occurs 6 times in 6 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:9 - that he may give me the cave of Machpelah H4375 which belongs to him, which is at the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in [fn]your presence as a possession for a burial site.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:17 -

So Ephron’s field, which was in Machpelah H4375, which faced Mamre, the field and the cave which was in it, and all the trees which were in the field, that were [fn]within all the confines of its border, [fn]were deeded over

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:19 - After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field at Machpelah H4375 facing Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:9 - Then his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah H4375, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, facing Mamre,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah H4375, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial site.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - Indeed, his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah H4375 before Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field for his possession as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
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