עֶפְרוֹן
Ephron
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6085 appears — 12 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 10 verses
- Genesis 23:8 בְּ/עֶפְר֥וֹן prep + n Proper He talked with them, saying, "If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
- Genesis 23:10 וְ/עֶפְר֥וֹן עֶפְר֨וֹן conj + n Proper n Proper Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,
- Genesis 23:13 עֶפְר֜וֹן n Proper He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."
- Genesis 23:14 עֶפְר֛וֹן n Proper Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,
- Genesis 23:16 עֶפְרוֹן֒ לְ/עֶפְרֹ֔ן n Proper prep + n Proper Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.
- Genesis 23:17 עֶפְר֗וֹן n Proper So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the border of it round about, were made sure
- Genesis 25:9 עֶפְרֹ֤ן n Proper Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,
- Genesis 49:29 עֶפְר֥וֹן n Proper He charged them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
- Genesis 49:30 עֶפְרֹ֥ן n Proper 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 from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.
- Genesis 50:13 עֶפְרֹ֥ן n Proper for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Joshua 1 verse
2 Chronicles 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
עפרון — transliterated ʻEphrôwn — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Ephron.” More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Genesis. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 12 verses — uncommon. It first appears in Genesis 23:8. See 12-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6085 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,836
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,836 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 10 verses 83%
- Joshua 1 verse 8%
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 8%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 12 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 10 verses · 83%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 8%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 8%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Ephron 13×
- American Standard Version†: Ephron 11×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Ephron 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Ephron 13×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6085 across 14† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6085 across 14† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6085 across 13† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6085 across 14† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. m. Hittite, Abr.’s time, according to Gn 23:8, 10(×2), 13, 16, 17; 49:29, עֶפְרֹן 23:6; 25:9; 49:30; 50:13 (all P). e.g. Genesis 23:8
- 2. loc. 2 Ch 13:19 Kt (עֶפְרַיִן Qr), cf. עָפְרָה 1 a. e.g. 2 Chronicles 13:19
- 3. mont. הַר־ע׳, on N. border of Judah Jos 15:9. e.g. Joshua 15:9
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
2 Ch 13:19 Qr v. עֶפְרוֹן 2.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עפר (ʻÊpher) (H6081) — Epher.
Forms in the corpus
The 14 distinct written forms H6085 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֶפְרֹ֥ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 49:30 | 2 |
| בְּ/עֶפְר֥וֹן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 23:8 | 1 |
| וְ/עֶפְר֥וֹן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 23:10 | 1 |
| לְ/עֶפְרֹ֔ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 23:16 | 1 |
| עֶפְר֑וֹן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 15:9 | 1 |
| עֶפְר֗וֹן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 23:17 | 1 |
| עֶפְר֛וֹן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 23:14 | 1 |
| עֶפְר֜וֹן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 23:13 | 1 |
| עֶפְר֥וֹן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 49:29 | 1 |
| עֶפְר֨וֹן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 23:10 | 1 |
| עֶפְרַ֖יִן | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 13:19 | 1 |
| עֶפְרֹ֤ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 25:9 | 1 |
| עֶפְרוֹן֒ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 23:16 | 1 |
| עפרון | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 13:19 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Ephron). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Fawn-like. (1.) The son of Zohar a Hittite, the owner of the field and cave of Machpelah (q.v.), which Abraham bought for 400 shekels of silver (Gen. 23:8-17; 25:9; 49:29, 30).
(2.) A mountain range which formed one of the landmarks on the north boundary of the tribe of Judah (Josh. 15:9), probably the range on the west side of the Wady Beit-Hanina.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(fawn-like), the son of Zochar, a Hittite, from whom Abraham bought the field and cave of Machpelah. (Genesis 23:8-17; 25:9; 49:29,30; 50:13) (B.C. 1860.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
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Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 12 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
