3716. Kphiyrah
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Kphiyrah: Kephirah

Original Word: כְּפִירָה
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Transliteration: Kphiyrah
Pronunciation: kef-ee-RAW
Phonetic Spelling: (kef-ee-raw')
KJV: Chephirah
Word Origin: [feminine of H3715 (כְּפִיר - young lions)]

1. the village (always with the art.)
2. Kephirah, a place in Israel

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Chephirah

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

see HEBREW kphiyr

Brown-Driver-Briggs
כְּפִירָה proper name, of a location city of the Hivites subsequently assigned to Benjamin., Joshua 9:17; Joshua 18:26; Ezra 2:25 = Nehemiah 7:29; ᵐ5 Κεφειρα, etc.; = modern Kefireh RobBR iii, 146 GuérinJud. i. 283 ff. Memiii. 36 BuhlG. § 94, p.169.

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

IV. כפר (√ of following, = dig ? compare Sabean כפר, verb dig, noun cave, DHMAnzeiger d. Wiener Akkadian, phil.-hist. Cl., Dec. 17, 1884, quoted by EutNab 27; Nöib. compare also Ethiopic basket, measure; Nabataean כפר cave, sepulcher, synonym of קברא Nö in EutNab ib.)

Forms and Transliterations
וְהַכְּפִירָ֔ה וְהַכְּפִירָ֖ה והכפירה כְּפִירָ֣ה כפירה kə·p̄î·rāh kefiRah kəp̄îrāh vehakkefiRah wə·hak·kə·p̄î·rāh wəhakkəp̄îrāh
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Englishman's Concordance
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

4 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 3716
4 Occurrences


kə·p̄î·rāh — 2 Occ.
wə·hak·kə·p̄î·rāh — 2 Occ.

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