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Lexicon :: Strong's H4375 - maḵpēlâ

Aa
מַכְפֵּלָה
Transliteration
maḵpēlâ
Pronunciation
mak-pay-law'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1019b

Strong’s Definitions

מַכְפֵּלָה Makpêlâh, mak-pay-law'; from H3717; a fold; Makpelah, a place in Palestine:—Machpelah.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's H4375 in the following manner: Machpelah (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's H4375 in the following manner: Machpelah (6x).
  1. Machpelah = "double" or "portion"

    1. the location of a burial cave for the patriarchs, near Hebron

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַכְפֵּלָה Makpêlâh, mak-pay-law'; from H3717; a fold; Makpelah, a place in Palestine:—Machpelah.
STRONGS H4375: Abbreviations
מַכְפֵּלָה proper name, of a location near Hebron, where the patriarchs and their wives were buried, only in P, always with article; שׂדה אשׁר בַּמּ׳ Genesis 23:17, מְעָדַת הַמּ׳ the cave of Machpelah Genesis 23:9, Genesis 25:9, מְעָרַת שְׂדֵה הַמּ׳ Genesis 23:19; Genesis 50:13, מְעָרָה אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׂדֵה הַמּ׳ Genesis 49:30. — compare BuhlGeogr. 160, 161. — (Evidently originally appellative, but meaning dubious; Greek Version of the LXX τό διπλοῦν; according to Thes = part, lot, portion, as Ethiopic bdb049510).
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H4375

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Strong's Number H4375 matches the Hebrew מַכְפֵּלָה (maḵpēlâ),
which occurs 6 times in 6 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:9 - That he will give me the hollow in the rock named Machpelah, which is his property at the end of his field; let him give it to me for its full price as a resting-place for my dead among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:17 - So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:19 - Then Abraham put Sarah his wife to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, that is, Hebron in the land of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:9 - And Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, put him to rest in the hollow rock of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, near Mamre;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - In the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to be his resting-place.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre.
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