Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #3716 - כְּפִירָה Kphiyrah (a city in Benjamin)

Original Word:	כְּפִירָה
Transliteration:	Kphiyrah
Definition:	a city in Benjamin
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Location
Phonetic Spelling:	(kef-ee-raw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Chephirah

Feminine of kphiyr; the village (always with the art.); Kephirah, a place in Palestine -- Chephirah.

see HEBREW kphiyr

Englishman's Concordance

Chephirah=“lioness”
1) a city of the Gibeonites subsequently assigned to the tribe of Benjamin
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: feminine of H3715

Brown-Driver-Briggs

כְּפִירָהproper name, of a locationcity of the Hivites subsequently assigned to Benjamin., Joshua 9:17; Joshua 18:26; Ezra 2:25=Nehemiah 7:29; ᵐ5Κεφειρα, etc.;=modern Kefireh Rob^{BR iii, 146} Guérin^{Jud. i. 283 ff.} Mem^{iii. 36} Buhl^{G. § 94, p.169}.

כְּפִירִיםNehemiah 6:2, probably=foregoing (ᵐ5 and others appellative noun=villages).

IV. כפר (√ of following,=dig ? compare Sabean כפר, verb dig, noun cave, DHM^{Anzeiger d. Wiener Akkadian, phil.-hist. Cl., Dec. 17, 1884}, quoted by Eut^{Nab 27}; Nö^ib. compare also Ethiopic basket, measure; Nabataean כפרcave, sepulcher, synonym of קברא Nö in Eut^{Nab ib}.)

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3716. כְּפִירָה (Kphiyrah) — 4 Occurrences

Joshua 9:17
HEB:וְעָרֵיהֶם֙ גִּבְע֣וֹן וְהַכְּפִירָ֔ה וּבְאֵר֖וֹת וְקִרְיַ֥ת
NAS: [were] Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth
KJV: [were] Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth,
INT: now their cities Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim

Joshua 18:26
HEB: וְהַמִּצְפֶּ֥ה וְהַכְּפִירָ֖ה וְהַמֹּצָֽה׃
NAS: and Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah,
KJV: And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
INT: and Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah

Ezra 2:25
HEB:קִרְיַ֤ת עָרִים֙ כְּפִירָ֣ה וּבְאֵר֔וֹת שְׁבַ֥ע
NAS: of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah and Beeroth,
KJV: of Kirjatharim, Chephirah, and Beeroth,
INT: the children of Kirjatharim Chephirah and Beeroth seven

Nehemiah 7:29
HEB:קִרְיַ֤ת יְעָרִים֙ כְּפִירָ֣ה וּבְאֵר֔וֹת שְׁבַ֥ע
NAS: of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah and Beeroth,
KJV: of Kirjathjearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth,
INT: he Kirjathjearim Chephirah and Beeroth seven

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