Bible Location
Meaning: a little lioness · 4 cross references · Modern-day map available
Chephirah was one of the Gibeonite towns that made a treaty with Joshua and later belonged to Benjamin. It is important because it appears both in the covenant story with the Gibeonites and in the post-exilic return lists. First appears in Josh 9:17.1
AI summary: Chephirah matters because it shares in the larger Gibeonite story of cunning, survival, and oath-bound coexistence. Its later place in Benjamin and in the lists of returnees shows that the town remained part of the lived landscape long after the drama of Joshua 9. That continuity makes it more than a supporting location in a single episode. The cross references present Chephirah as a treaty-town whose place endured from conquest memory into restored community life.1
Village, one of the four cities of the Gibeonitish Hivites with whom Joshua made a league (9:17). It belonged to Benjamin. It has been identified with the modern Kefireh, on the west confines of Benjamin, about 2 miles west of Ajalon and 11 from Jerusalem. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.