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Strong's #6084: `Ophrah (pronounced of-raw')

feminine of 6082; female fawn; Ophrah, the name of an Israelite and of two places in Palestine:--Ophrah.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛ophrâh

Ophrah = "fawn"

1) a Judaite, son of Meonothai (noun proper masculine)

2) a town of Benjamin approximately 5 miles (8 kilometers) east of Bethel (noun proper locative)

3) a place in Manasseh, native place of Gideon; probably located close to Shechem (noun proper locative)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition



Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

Joshua 18:23: "And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,"
Judges 6:11: "under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi-ezrite: and his son"
Judges 6:24: "this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites."
Judges 8:27: "an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring"
Judges 8:32: "in the sepulcher of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites."
Judges 9:5: "And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons"
1 Samuel 13:17: "company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:"
1 Chronicles 4:14: "And Meonothai begot Ophrah: and Seraiah begot Joab,"









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