Strong's #211: 'Owphiyr (pronounced o-feer')

or (shortened) pOphiyr {o-feer'}; and fOwphir {o- feer'}; of uncertain derivation; Ophir, the name of a son of Joktan, and of a gold region in the East:--Ophir.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'ôphı̂yr / 'ôphir

Ophir = "reducing to ashes"

1) eleventh son of Joktan

2) a land or city in southern Arabia in Solomon' s trade route where gold evidently was traded for goods

3) characteristic of fine gold

4) fine gold

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine and locative

Relation: of uncertain derivation

Usage:

This word is used 13 times:

 

Genesis 10:29: " And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan."
1 Kings 9:28: " to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred"
1 Kings 10:11: "that brought gold from Ophir, from Ophir, brought in from Ophir"
1 Kings 10:11: "gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir from Ophir great plenty"
1 Kings 22:48: "ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for"
1 Chronicles 1:23: " And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan."
1 Chronicles 29:4: "talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents"
2 Chronicles 8:18: "with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four"
2 Chronicles 9:10: "which brought gold from Ophir, from Ophir, brought algum trees"
Job 22:24: "gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks."
Job 28:16: "be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire."
Psalms 45:9: "did stand the queen in gold of Ophir."
Isaiah 13:12: "than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir."