Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H4375
מַכְפֵּלָה
Makpelahmak-pay-law'
Machpelah
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Makpêlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4375is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4375
Makpelah, a place in Palestine
The King James renders it: Machpelah.
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
Makpelah is rendered "Machpelah". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Six of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 23:9to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.”
Genesis 23:9הַמַּכְפֵּלָה֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's six uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the Machpelah5
- in the Machpelah1
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.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֛ה2
- הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֑ה2
- בַּמַּכְפֵּלָ֔ה1
- הַמַּכְפֵּלָה֙1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)5HTd/Npl
- preposition with the article + proper noun (a name)1HRd/Npl
Genesis
six uses
to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.”
- הַמַּכְפֵּלָה֙hamakhpelahthe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Machpelah
So Ephron’s field at Machpelah near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the boundaries of the field were deeded over
- בַּמַּכְפֵּלָ֔הbamakhpelahpreposition with the article + proper noun (a name)tagged: in the Machpelah
After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
- הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֛הhamakhpelahthe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Machpelah
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
- הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֑הhamakhpelahthe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Machpelah
The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
- הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֛הhamakhpelahthe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Machpelah
They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
- הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֑הhamakhpelahthe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Machpelah
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 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.