Ephron

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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


EPHRON.—1. The Hittite from whom Abraham purchased the field or plot of ground in which was the cave of Machpelah (Gen_23:1-20). The purchase is described with great particularity; and the transactions between Ephron and Abraham are conducted with an elaborate courtesy characteristic of Oriental proceedings. Ephron received 400 shekels’ weight of silver (23:15): coined money apparently did not exist at that time. If we compare the sale of the site with other instances (Gen_33:19, 1Ki_16:24), Ephron seems to have made a good bargain. 2. A mountain district, containing cities, on the border of Judah, between Nephtoah and Kiriath-jearim (Jos_15:9). The ridge W. of Bethlehem seems intended. 3. A strong fortress in the W. part of Bashan between Ashteroth-karnaim and Bethshean (1Ma_5:46 ff., 2Ma_12:27). The site is unknown. 4. In 2Ch_13:19 RV [Note: Revised Version.] reads Ephron for AV [Note: Authorized Version.] Ephrain. The place referred to is probably the Ephraim of Joh_11:54. See Ephraim (city), No. 2.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


Zohar's son, a Hittite; owner of the field facing Mature or Hebron, and the cave in the field. Abraham bought it from Ephron for 400 shekels of silver (Genesis 23; 25; 49).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Eph'ron. (fawn-like). The son of Zochar, a Hittite, from whom Abraham bought the field and cave of Machpelah. Gen_23:8-17; Gen_25:9; Gen_49:29-30; Gen_50:13. (B.C. 1860).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


E?phron, a Hittite residing in Hebron, who sold to Abraham the cave and field of Machpelah as a family sepulcher (Gen_23:6).
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Ephron
(Hebrews Ephron', עֶפְרוֹן, signif. doubtful; Sept. Ε᾿φρών, Vulg. Ephron), the name of a man and also of two or three places.
1. The son of Zohar, a Hittite; the owner of a field which lay facing Mamre or Hebron, and of the cave contained therein, which Abraham bought from him for 400 shekels of silver (Gen_23:8-17; Gen_25:9; Gen_49:29-30; Gen_1:1-31; Gen_13:1-18). B.C. 2027. By Josephus (Ant. 1:14) the name is given as Ephraim (Ε᾿φράιμος, and the purchase-money 40 shekels. SEE ABRAHAM.
2. The textual reading (but with initial א) in the Masoretic Bible, and the marginal in the A.V. for EPHRAIM SEE EPHRAIM (q.v.), a city within the borders of the kingdom of Israel (2Ch_13:19). 3. A mountain, the "cities" of which formed one of the landmarks on the northern boundary of the tribe of Judah (Jos_15:9), between the "water of Nephtoah" and Kirjath-jearim. As these latter are with great probability identified with Ain Yalo and Kuriet el-enab, Mount Ephron is probably the elevated region on the south side of wady Beit-Hanina (traditional valley of the Terebinth), near its junction with wady Ain- Haniyeh or wady el-Werd. This seems to be the "high plain" indicated by Schwarz (Palest. page 96) as appropriately called Mount Ephron, in comparison with the deep valleys adjoining. The "cities of Mount Ephron" may then be denoted by such ruined sites as el-Sus and Mar-Zakaria in this vicinity.
4. A very strong city (πόλις μεγάλη ὀχυρά σφόδρα) on the east of Jordan, between Carnaim (AshterothKarnaim) and Bethshean, attacked and demolished by Judas Maccabaeus (1Ma_5:46-52; 2Ma_12:27-28; Josephus, Ant. 12:8, 5). From the description in these two passages it appears to have been situated in a defile or valley, and to have completely occupied 'the pass. It was possibly near the outlet of the Jabbok into the Jordan. Kildens conjectures (Landes, kunde von Palistina, Berl. 1817, page 75) that it was the present Kulat er-Rubud, a strong Saracenic castle on the top of a hill up the wady Rajib, and the residence of the chief of Jebel Ajlun (Burckhardt, Syria, page 266 sq.; Robinson, Researches, 2:121; 3:166).

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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