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makh.pe.lah H4375

מַכְפֵּלָה (makh.pe.lah) means “Machpelah” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

מַכְפֵּלָה Hebrew · H4375 6 tagged occurrences in 6 verses

Pronunciation guide: mak-pay-law' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H4375

מַכְפֵּלָה · makh.pe.lah · Machpelah

§ Machpelah = "double" or "portion" the location of a burial cave for the patriarchs, near Hebron

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H3717 (כָּפַל); a fold; Makpelah, a place in Palestine

KJV glosses: Machpelah.

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How translators render H4375

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BSB rendering counts
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at machpelah 3
of machpelah 3
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
of machpelah 5
in machpelah 1

Verses containing H4375

Page 1 of 1. 6 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Genesis 23:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.”

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  2. Genesis 23:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Ephron’s field at Machpelah near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the boundaries of the field were deeded over

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  3. Genesis 23:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

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  4. Genesis 25:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.

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  5. Genesis 49:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

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  6. Genesis 50:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

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