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Strong's #6085: `Ephrown (pronounced ef-rone')

from the same as 6081; fawn-like; Ephron, the name of a Canaanite and of two places in Palestine:--Ephron, Ephrain (from the margin).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛ephrôn

Ephron = "fawn-like"

1) a Hittite, son of Zohar and the one from whom Abraham bought the field and cave of Machpelah (noun proper masculine)

2) a city on the borders of Benjamin (noun proper locative)

3) a mountain on the northern border of Judah (noun proper locative)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition



Usage:

This word is used 14 times:

Genesis 23:8: "out of my sight; hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,"
Genesis 23:10: " And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered"
Genesis 23:10: "among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham"
Genesis 23:13: "And he spoke unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But"
Genesis 23:14: " And Ephron answered Abraham, saying"
Genesis 23:16: "And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron"
Genesis 23:16: "Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named"
Genesis 23:17: "And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field,"
Genesis 25:9: "of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which"
Genesis 49:29: "the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,"
Genesis 49:30: "bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession"
Genesis 50:13: "for a possession of a burial place of Ephron the Hittite, before"
Joshua 15:9: "and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah,"
2 Chronicles 13:19: "thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns"









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