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Strong's #6077: `Ophel (pronounced o'-fel)

the same as 6076; Ophel, a ridge in Jerusalem:--Ophel.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛ôphel

Ophel = "hill"

1) a ridge of hills in Jerusalem, fortified for defense of the city

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: the same as H6076



Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

2 Chronicles 27:3: "of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much."
2 Chronicles 33:14: "at the fish gate and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains"
Nehemiah 3:26: "Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate"
Nehemiah 3:27: "tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel."
Nehemiah 11:21: "But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa were over the Nethinims."









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