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Genesis 23:10
“And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H6085 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Ephron, the name of a Canaanite and of two places in Palestine
- Derivation
- from the same as H6081 (עֵפֶר); fawn-like;
- KJV renderings
- Ephron, Ephrain (from the margin).
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- עֶפְר֥וֹן — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 15 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 23:8Genesis 23:13Genesis 23:14Genesis 23:16Genesis 23:16
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read עֶפְרוֹן here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.