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Strong's #4471: Mamre' (pronounced mam-ray')

from 4754(in the sense of vigor); lusty; Mamre, an Amorite:--Mamre.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mamrê'

Mamre = "strength" or "fatness"

1) an Amorite who allied himself with Abram (noun proper masculine)

2) an oak grove on Mamre' s land in Palestine where Abraham dwelt (noun proper locative)

3) a place near Abraham' s burial place, apparently identified with Hebron (noun proper locative)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: from H4754 (in the sense of vigour)



Usage:

This word is used 10 times:

Genesis 13:18: "and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there"
Genesis 14:13: "for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother"
Genesis 14:24: "with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion."
Genesis 18:1: "appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door"
Genesis 23:17: "was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all"
Genesis 23:19: "of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land"
Genesis 25:9: "the Hittite, which is before Mamre;"
Genesis 35:27: "unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where"
Genesis 49:30: "of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which"
Genesis 50:13: "of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre."









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