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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comFausset Bible Dictionary: Ophrah
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1. In Benjamin (; ). Jerome makes it five miles E. of Bethel. Probably the same as Ephron. (See EPHRON; EPHRAIM.) Taiyibeh is now on its site.
2. Ophrah of the Abiezrites, Gideon's place of birth (-24; ; ), residence, and burial. He put the ephod here which he had adorned with the Midianites' gold, and to it all Israel resorted in pilgrimage for worship, a spiritual "whoring" (). In Manasseh, not far from Shechem (; ). Now Erfai (Van de Velde); Erafa (Schwartz). Epher a head of Manasseh probably gave the name (), migrating there with Abiezer and Shechem (; ).
3. , "Meonothai begat (or else founded) Ophrah" of Judah.