Bible Location
Meaning: dust; lead; a fawn · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
This Ophrah entry refers to the Benjaminite town in the central hill country, not to Gideon's Ophrah in Manasseh. It is important because similar names can easily blur distinct places. First appears in Josh 18:23.1
AI summary: Ophrah matters here because one small Benjaminite town sits inside military and territorial memory. Saul's route touches it, and Joshua's lists preserve it within Benjamin's inheritance. The cross references present this Ophrah as a central hill-country town distinct from the better-known Ophrah of Gideon.1
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
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.