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Strong's #4375: Makpelah (pronounced mak-pay-law')

from 3717; a fold; Makpelah, a place in Palestine:--Machpelah.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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makpêlâh

Machpelah = "double" or "portion"

1) the location of a burial cave for the patriarchs, near Hebron

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: from H3717



Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

Genesis 23:9: "That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field;"
Genesis 23:9: "That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field;"
Genesis 23:17: "And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field,"
Genesis 23:17: "And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field,"
Genesis 23:19: "in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same"
Genesis 23:19: "in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same"
Genesis 25:9: "buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son"
Genesis 25:9: "buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son"
Genesis 49:30: "In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre,"
Genesis 49:30: "In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre,"
Genesis 50:13: "and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with"
Genesis 50:13: "and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with"









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