Machpelah
מַכְפֵּלָהStrong’s H4375makhpelah (makh-pe-lah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Makhpelah is the Hebrew word usually translated “machpelah”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.”
Meaning
- § Machpelah = "double" or "portion"
How it's translated
- machpelah 5
- in machpelah 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 6
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 23:17And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure
- Genesis 23:19And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 25:9And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;
- Genesis 49:30In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
- Genesis 50:13For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Hebrew dictionary
מַכְפֵּלָה makhpelah · Machpelah
§ Machpelah = "double" or "portion" the location of a burial cave for the patriarchs, near Hebron
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.