מַכְפֵּלָהMakpêlâh
Makpelah, a place in Palestine
Pronunciation: mak-pay-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4375
Meanings
proper name [of a location]: near Hebron, where the patriarchs and their wives were buried (Genesis 23:17; Genesis 23:9; Genesis 25:9; Genesis 23:19; Genesis 50:13)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 23:9 to let me buy his cave at Machpelah, down at the end of his field. I will pay the full price in the presence of witnesses, so I will have a permanent burial place for my family.”
- Genesis 23:17 So Abraham bought the plot of land belonging to Ephron at Machpelah, near Mamre. This included the field itself, the cave that was in it, and all the surrounding trees.
- Genesis 23:19 Then Abraham buried his wife, Sarah, there in Canaan, in the cave of Machpelah, near Mamre (also called Hebron).
- Genesis 25:9 His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
- Genesis 49:30 This is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a permanent burial site.
- Genesis 50:13 They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the cave that Abraham had bought as a permanent burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
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).