Difference between revisions of "Ephron"

<li> A mountain range which formed one of the landmarks on the north boundary of the tribe of [[Judah]] (&nbsp;Joshua 15:9 ), probably the range on the west side of the [[Wady]] Beit-Hanina. <div> <p> &nbsp;Copyright StatementThese dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated [[Bible]] Dictionary, Third Edition, published by [[Thomas]] Nelson, 1897. Public Domain. </p> <p> &nbsp;Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. Entry for 'Ephron'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/e/ephron.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li>

<p> &nbsp;Eph'ron. &nbsp;(fawn-like). The son of Zochar, a Hittite, from whom Abraham bought the field and cave of Machpelah. &nbsp;Genesis 23:8-17; &nbsp;Genesis 25:9; &nbsp;Genesis 49:29-30; &nbsp;Genesis 50:13. (B.C. 1860). </p>

<p> (Hebrews Ephron', &nbsp;עֶפְרוֹן &nbsp;, signif. doubtful; Sept. &nbsp;Ε᾿φρών, Vulg. &nbsp;Ephron), the name of a man and also of two or three places. </p> <p> &nbsp;1. The son of Zohar, a Hittite; the owner of a field which lay facing [[Mamre]] or Hebron, and of the cave contained therein, which Abraham bought from him for 400 shekels of silver (&nbsp;Genesis 23:8-17; &nbsp;Genesis 25:9; &nbsp;Genesis 49:29-30; &nbsp;Genesis 1:1-31; &nbsp;Genesis 13:1-18). B.C. 2027. By [[Josephus]] &nbsp;(Ant. 1:14) the name is given as &nbsp;Ephraim (&nbsp;Ε᾿φράιμος, and the purchase-money 40 shekels. (See [[Abraham]]). </p> <p> &nbsp;2. The textual reading (but with initial &nbsp;א ) in the Masoretic Bible, and the marginal in the A.V. for EPHRAIM (See [[Ephraim]]) (q.v.), a city within the borders of the kingdom of [[Israel]] (&nbsp;2 Chronicles 13:19). &nbsp;3. A mountain, the "cities" of which formed one of the landmarks on the northern boundary of the tribe of Judah (&nbsp;Joshua 15:9), between the "water of Nephtoah" and Kirjath-jearim. As these latter are with great probability identified with [[Ain]] Yalo and Kuriet el-enab, Mount Ephron is probably the elevated region on the south side of wady Beit-Hanina (traditional valley of the Terebinth), near its junction with wady Ain- Haniyeh or wady el-Werd. This seems to be the "high plain" indicated by Schwarz &nbsp;(Palest. page 96) as appropriately called Mount Ephron, in comparison with the deep valleys adjoining. The "cities of Mount Ephron" may then be denoted by such ruined sites as el-Sus and Mar-Zakaria in this vicinity. </p> <p> &nbsp;4. A very strong city (&nbsp;πόλις &nbsp;μεγάλη &nbsp;ὀχυρά &nbsp;σφόδρα ) on the east of Jordan, between [[Carnaim]] (AshterothKarnaim) and Bethshean, attacked and demolished by [[Judas]] Maccabaeus (&nbsp;1 [[Maccabees]] 5:46-52; &nbsp;2 Maccabees 12:27-28; Josephus, &nbsp;Ant. 12:8, 5). From the description in these two passages it appears to have been situated in a defile or valley, and to have completely occupied 'the pass. It was possibly near the outlet of the [[Jabbok]] into the Jordan. Kildens conjectures &nbsp;(Landes, kunde von Palistina, Berl. 1817, page 75) that it was the present Kulat er-Rubud, a strong Saracenic castle on the top of a hill up the wady Rajib, and the residence of the chief of Jebel Ajlun (Burckhardt, Syria, page 266 sq.; Robinson, Researches, 2:121; 3:166). </p>