עׇפְרָהʻOphrâh
Ophrah, the name of an Israelite and of two places in Palestine
Pronunciation: of-raw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6084
Meanings
1. location
a. perhaps modern, in Benjamin (Joshua 18:23; 1 Samuel 13:7)
b. in Manasseh (Judges 6:11; Judges 8:27; Judges 6:24)
2. person, in Judah (1 Chronicles 4:14)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- Joshua 18:23 Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,
- Judges 6:11 Then the angel of the Lord came and sat beneath the great tree at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash of the clan of Abiezer. Gideon son of Joash was threshing wheat at the bottom of a winepress to hide the grain from the Midianites.
- Judges 6:24 And Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and named it Yahweh-Shalom (which means “the Lord is peace”). The altar remains in Ophrah in the land of the clan of Abiezer to this day.
- Judges 8:27 Gideon made a sacred ephod from the gold and put it in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all the Israelites prostituted themselves by worshiping it, and it became a trap for Gideon and his family.
- Judges 8:32 Gideon died when he was very old, and he was buried in the grave of his father, Joash, at Ophrah in the land of the clan of Abiezer.
- Judges 9:5 He went to his father’s home at Ophrah, and there, on one stone, they killed all seventy of his half brothers, the sons of Gideon. But the youngest brother, Jotham, escaped and hid.
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).