Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #4375 - מַכְפֵּלָה Makpelah (a place near Hebron)

Original Word:	מַכְפֵּלָה
Transliteration:	Makpelah
Definition:	a place near Hebron
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Location
Phonetic Spelling:	(mak-pay-law')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Machpelah

From kaphal; a fold; Makpelah, a place in Palestine -- Machpelah.

see HEBREW kaphal

Englishman's Concordance

Machpelah=“double” or “portion”
1) the location of a burial cave for the patriarchs, near Hebron
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H3717
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1019b

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מַכְמֵּלָהproper name, of a locationnear Hebron, where the patriarchs and their wives were buried, only in P, always with article; ׳שׂדה אשׁר בַּמּGenesis 23:17, ׳מְעָדַת הַמּthe cave of MachpelahGenesis 23:9, Genesis 25:9, מְעָרַת׳שְׂדֵה הַמּGenesis 23:19; Genesis 50:13, ׳מְעָרָה אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׂדֵה הַמּGenesis 49:30. — compare Buhl^{Geogr. 160, 161.} — (Evidently originally appellative, but meaning dubious; ᵐ5τό διπλοῦν; according to Thes=part, lot, portion, as Ethiopic

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 4375. מַכְפֵּלָה (Makpelah) — 6 Occurrences

Genesis 23:9
HEB:אֶת־ מְעָרַ֤ת הַמַּכְפֵּלָה֙ אֲשֶׁר־ ל֔וֹ
NAS: me the cave of Machpelah which
KJV: me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which [is] in the end
INT: may give the cave of Machpelah which which

Genesis 23:17
HEB:עֶפְר֗וֹן אֲשֶׁר֙ בַּמַּכְפֵּלָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר לִפְנֵ֣י
NAS: which was in Machpelah, which
KJV: of Ephron, which [was] in Machpelah, which [was] before
INT: Ephron's which Machpelah which faced

Genesis 23:19
HEB:מְעָרַ֞ת שְׂדֵ֧ה הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֛ה עַל־ פְּנֵ֥י
NAS: of the field at Machpelah facing
KJV: of the field of Machpelah before
INT: the cave of the field Machpelah and facing

Genesis 25:9
HEB:אֶל־ מְעָרַ֖ת הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֑ה אֶל־ שְׂדֵ֞ה
NAS: him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field
KJV: him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field
INT: in the cave of Machpelah in the field

Genesis 49:30
HEB:אֲשֶׁ֨ר בִּשְׂדֵ֧ה הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֛ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל־
NAS: that is in the field of Machpelah, which
KJV: that [is] in the field of Machpelah, which [is] before
INT: which the field of Machpelah which is

Genesis 50:13
HEB:בִּמְעָרַ֖ת שְׂדֵ֣ה הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר קָנָה֩
NAS: of the field of Machpelah before
KJV: of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham
INT: the cave of the field of Machpelah which had bought

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