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OPHRAH.—1. A town in Benjamin (Jos_18:23) which was somewhere near Michmash, and is only once elsewhere referred to, as an indication of the direction of a Philistine raid (1Sa_13:17). The data for its identification are insufficient: Jerome states that it was 5 Roman miles east from Bethel. 2. Ophrah ‘that pertaineth unto Joash the Abiezrite’—i.e. to a member of a sept of the tribe of Manasseh (Jos_17:2), was the native village of Gideon. It is not mentioned except in connexion with the history of him and of his son Abimelech (Jdg_6:1-40; Jdg_7:1-25; Jdg_8:1-35; Jdg_9:1-57). No satisfactory identification has been proposed. 3. A name in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah (1Ch_4:14).
R. A. S. Macalister.