Hapharaim
“searching; digging” Hitchcock's 18691 mention, all in Joshua
Where it is
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Counted from 1 references · STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0
About this place
When the land was divided, Hapharaim fell to Issachar: “Their border was to Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem, Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath” (Joshua 19:18–19). It is named nowhere else in Scripture, and its site is not known for certain. It is not Gideon’s Ophrah, which lay in Manasseh.
Article: STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · corrected by Gospel Companion from the verses
Every mention
1 reference, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)
Joshua 1 mention
What the dictionary says
haf-a'-ra'-im (chapharayim; the King James Version Haphraim, haf-ra'im, possibly "place of a moat"): A town in the territory of Issachar, named with Shunem…
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
Read the article →Sources
- Gospel Companion · written from the verses (WEB) for this entry
- Corrected by Gospel Companion · Joshua 19:19 names Hapharaim, a town of Issachar, not Ophrah
- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · Public domain