Strong's #2660: Chepher (pronounced khay'-fer)

from 2658 or 2659; a pit of shame; Chepher, a place in Palestine; also the name of three Israelites:--Hepher.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

chêpher

Hepher = "a well"

1) youngest son of Gilead and head of the family of Hepherites (noun proper masculine)

2) son of Asher, the father of Tekoa (noun proper masculine)

3) the Mecherathite, one of David' s mighty warriors (noun proper masculine)

4) a place in ancient Canaan, west of the Jordan, conquered by Joshua site unknown (noun proper locative)

4a) a place in Judah, probably the same as 4 above

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Numbers 26:32: "And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites."
Numbers 26:33: "And Zelophehad the son of Hepher no sons, but"
Numbers 27:1: "the daughters of Zelophehad, of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir,"
Joshua 12:17: "of Tappuah, one; of Hepher, one;"
Joshua 17:2: "and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male"
Joshua 17:3: "But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son"
1 Kings 4:10: "to him pertained Sochoh, the land of Hepher:"
1 Chronicles 4:6: "bore him and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons"
1 Chronicles 11:36: " Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah"