Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H211
אוֹפִיר
ophiro-feer'
Ophir
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼÔwphîyr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H211is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H211
Ophir, the name of a son of Joktan, and of a gold region in the East
The King James renders it: Ophir.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ophir is rendered "Ophir". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Four of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 10:29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
Genesis 10:29אוֹפִ֥ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's thirteen uses are in 1 Kings.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Ophir6
- from Ophir3
- Ophir towards3
- gold of Ophir1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אוֹפָן | ophan | wheel | Uses35 |
The words it stands beside
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אוֹפִֽיר׃3
- אוֹפִ֑יר2
- אוֹפִ֔ירָה2
- מֵאוֹפִ֑יר2
- אוֹפִ֥יר1
- אוֹפִ֛ירָה1
- אוֹפִ֥ר1
- מֵאֹפִ֜יר1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)5HNpl
- proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)3HNpl/Sd
- preposition + proper noun (a name)3HR/Npl
- proper noun (a name)2HNpm
Genesis
one use
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
- אוֹפִ֥רʾofirproper noun (a name)tagged: Ophir
1 Kings
four uses
They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.
- אוֹפִ֔ירָהʾofirahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Ophir towards
(The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir also brought from Ophir a great cargo of almug wood and precious stones.
- מֵאוֹפִ֑ירmeofirpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Ophir
- מֵאֹפִ֜ירmeofirpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Ophir
Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
- אוֹפִ֛ירָהʾofirahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Ophir towards
1 Chronicles
two uses
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
- אוֹפִ֥ירʾofirproper noun (a name)tagged: Ophir
three thousand talents of gold (the gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the buildings,
- אוֹפִ֑ירʾofirproper noun (a name)tagged: Ophir
2 Chronicles
two uses
So Hiram sent him ships captained by his servants, along with crews of experienced sailors. They went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir and acquired from there 450 talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
- אוֹפִ֔ירָהʾofirahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Ophir towards
(The servants of Hiram and of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir also brought algum wood and precious stones.
- מֵאוֹפִ֑ירmeofirpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Ophir
Job
two uses
Psalms
one use
The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
- אוֹפִֽיר׃ʾofirproper noun (a name)tagged: Ophir
Isaiah
one use
I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
- אוֹפִֽיר׃ʾofirproper noun (a name)tagged: Ophir
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.