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Lexicon :: Strong's H6085 - ʿep̄rôn

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עֶפְרוֹן
Transliteration
ʿep̄rôn
Pronunciation
ef-rone'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as עֵפֶר (H6081)
Strong’s Definitions

עֶפְרוֹן ʻEphrôwn, ef-rone'; from the same as H6081; fawn-like; Ephron, the name of a Canaanite and of two places in Palestine:—Ephron, Ephrain (from the margin).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's H6085 in the following manner: Ephron (13x), Ephrain (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's H6085 in the following manner: Ephron (13x), Ephrain (1x).

  1. Ephron = "fawn-like"

    proper masculine noun

    1. a Hittite, son of Zohar and the one from whom Abraham bought the field and cave of Machpelah

      proper locative noun

    2. a city on the borders of Benjamin

    3. a mountain on the northern border of Judah

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֶפְרוֹן ʻEphrôwn, ef-rone'; from the same as H6081; fawn-like; Ephron, the name of a Canaanite and of two places in Palestine:—Ephron, Ephrain (from the margin).
STRONGS H6085: Abbreviations
† עֶפְרוֺן proper name Εφρων: —
1. masculine Hittite, Abraham's time, according to Genesis 23:8, 10 (twice in verse); Genesis 23:13, 16, 17; Genesis 49:29, עֶפְרֹן Genesis 23:6; Genesis 25:9; Genesis 49:30; Genesis 50:13 (all P).
2. location 2 Chronicles 13:19 Kt (עֶפְיִן Qr), compare עָפְרָה 1a. 3. mont. הַרעֿ׳, on northern border of Judah Joshua 15:9.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

23:6; 23:8; 23:10; 23:13; 23:16; 23:17; 25:9; 49:29; 49:30; 50:13

Joshua

15:9

2 Chronicles

13:19

H6085

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6085 matches the Hebrew עֶפְרוֹן (ʿep̄rôn),
which occurs 15 times in 12 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:8 - And he said to them, “If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:10 - Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who went in at the gate of his city,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:13 - And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:14 - Ephron answered Abraham,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:16 - Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:17 - So the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:9

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:29 - Then he commanded them and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:9 - Then the boundary extends from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and from there to the cities of Mount Ephron. Then the boundary bends around to Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:19 - And Abijah pursued Jeroboam and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages and Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron[fn] with its villages.
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