Mamre:
(strength, fatness) an ancient Amorite, who with his brothers, Eshcol and Aner, was in alliance with Abram (Genesis 14:13; 14:51) and under the shade of whose oak grove the patriarch dwelt in the interval between his residence at Bethel and at Beersheba (Genesis 13:18; 18:1). In the subsequent chapters Mamre is a mere local appellation. ch (Genesis 23:17; 23:19; 25:9; 49:30; 50:13).
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