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Genesis 49:30
“In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H4631 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a cavern (as dark)
- Derivation
- from H5783 (עוּר);
- KJV renderings
- cave, den, hole.
- Grammar
- בַּ — preposition with definite article
- מְּעָרָ֞ה — common noun, feminine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 40 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 19:30Genesis 23:9Genesis 23:11Genesis 23:17Genesis 23:19
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 מְעָרָה 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.