2 others in the registry answer to the name Ophrah. Every Ophrah in the Bible
place · also Beth-le-aphrah
Ophrah
עׇפְרָה
- verses
- 3
- first named
- Joshua 18:23
- last named
- Micah 1:10
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.56°N · 35.03°E
Khirbet et Taiyiba (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 3 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Ophrah in the text
There are two places named Ophrah mentioned in the Bible:
Ophrah of Benjamin: This Ophrah was a town located in the territory of Benjamin (Josh. 18:23). It is listed among the towns allotted to the tribe during the division of the Promised Land. No further details about this Ophrah are provided in the Bible.
Ophrah of Manasseh: This Ophrah was a place associated with Gideon, one of the judges of Israel. It was the hometown of Gideon and the site where he built an altar to the Lord and destroyed the altar of Baal (Judg. 6:11, 24). Gideon's son, Abimelech, was born in Ophrah (Judg. 8:31). The Philistines raided Ophrah during the time of Saul (1Sam. 13:17). The prophet Micah mentions an Ophrah in his prophecy, possibly referring to this location, using the name Beth-le-aphrah (Mic. 1:10). The exact location of this Ophrah is uncertain, but it was likely situated in the region of Manasseh, west of the Jordan River.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Stands in the same events as
- Dust1 event
- Beth-horon Lower1 event
- Shual1 event
- Zeboim Valley1 event
The pattern
Where Ophrah is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
3 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in Joshua (1), 1 Samuel (1) and Micah (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 3 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Sources