Chephirah

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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


CHEPHIRAH (‘village,’ Jos_9:17; Jos_18:26, Ezr_2:25, Neh_7:29).—One of the four Hivite cities which made peace with the Hebrews; re-peopled after the Captivity, having belonged to Benjamin; called in 1Es_5:19 Caphira. Now Kefîreh S.W. of Gibeon.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


One of Gibeon's four cities (Jos_9:17), afterward belonging to Benjamin (Jos_18:26). The men of C. returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon (Ezr_2:25; Neh_7:29). Now Kefir, on the W. of Benjamin, near Ajalon (Jalo).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Chephi'rah. (the hamlet). One of the four cities of the Gibeonites, Jos_9:17, named, afterwards, among the towns of Benjamin. Ezr_2:25; Neh_7:29.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


ke-fı̄?ra (הכּפירה, ha-kephı̄rāh; Codex Vaticanus, Καφειρά, Kapheirá (Josh 9); Codex Alexandrinus has Chepheirá, Codex Vaticanus has καὶ Φειρά, kaı́ Pheirá (Josh 18)): One of the cities of the Hivites who by guile made alliance with Israel (Jos_9:17). It was in the lot of Benjamin (Jos_18:26), and was reoccupied after the return from Babylon (Ezr_2:25; Neh_7:29). It is represented by the modern Kefı̄reh, to the Southwest of Gibeon, and North of Ḳaryat el-‛Anab. It stands on high ground, with many ancient remains.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Chephirah
(Hebrews in Joshua always with the art. hak-Kephirah´, הִכְּפַרָה, the village, Sept. Κεφιρά; but in Ezra Καφαρά, Nehemiah Καφερά v. r. Καφιρά), one of the four cities of the Gibeonitish Hivites with whom Joshua made the league (Jos_9:17; comp. Jos_9:7); assigned to the tribe of Benjamin (18:26), and occupied by the remnant of the same tribe after the Captivity (Ezr_2:25; Neh_7:29). Schwarz (Palest. p. 127) thinks it is one of "the villages (Kephirim, כְּפַרַים) in the plain of Ono" (Neh_6:2). The Samaritan Version, at Gen_13:3, renders Hai (Ai) by Kephrah (כפרה); but this cannot be Chephirah, since both Ai and it are mentioned together in Joshua 9 (comp. 3 with 17), and in the lists of Ezra and Nehemiah already quoted. Dr. Robinson seems to have discovered it under the scarcely altered name of Kefîr (Biblioth. Sacra, 1853, p. 124), in the mountain country on the western confines of Benjamin, about two miles east of Ajalon (Later Bib. Res. p. 146). The "extensive site called Keferrut," suggested by Thomson (Land and Book, 2:304), is too far N.W. The same objection applies to another ruined village, el-Kefir, laid down in this direction on Van de Velde's Map.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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