חֵפֶרChêpher
חֵ֫פֶר: 1.
Pronunciation: khay'-fer · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2660
Meanings
a Manassite (Numbers 26:32; Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1)
2. a man of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:6)
3. one of David's heroes (1 Chronicles 11:36; 2 Samuel 23:36)
חֵ֫פֶר: 1. Canaanitish town, with a king, named just before Aphek, exact site unknown (Joshua 12:17)
2. in Judah (1 Kings 4:10; Joshua 19:13; 2 Kings 14:25)
Same root
- חָפַרchâphar · H2658properly, to pry into; by implication, to delve, to explore
- חָפֵרchâphêr · H2659to blush; figuratively, to be ashamed, disappointed; causatively, to shame, reproach
- חֶפְרִיChephrîy · H2662a Chephrite (collectively) or descendants of Chepher
- חֲפָרַיִםChăphârayim · H2663Chapharajim, a place in Palestine
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 26:32 The Shemidaites, named after their ancestor Shemida. The Hepherites, named after their ancestor Hepher.
- Numbers 26:33 (One of Hepher’s descendants, Zelophehad, had no sons, but his daughters’ names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.)
- Numbers 27:1 One day a petition was presented by the daughters of Zelophehad—Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. Their father, Zelophehad, was a descendant of Hepher son of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Manasseh, son of Joseph.
- Joshua 12:17 The king of Tappuah The king of Hepher
- Joshua 17:2 So the allotment on the west side of the Jordan was for the remaining families within the clans of the tribe of Manasseh: Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These clans represent the male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph.
- Joshua 17:3 However, Zelophehad, a descendant of Hepher son of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Manasseh, had no sons. He had only daughters, whose names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).