Bible Person
Meaning: dust · Male · 10 cross references
Ephron is the Hittite from whom Abraham purchases the field and cave of Machpelah for Sarah's burial. He appears in one of Genesis' most important land transactions. First appears in Gen 23:8.1
AI summary: Ephron matters because the cross references present him at the moment when Abraham secures a legally recognized burial possession in the promised land. The negotiation is detailed and public, underscoring permanence, legitimacy, and the seriousness of the purchase. Ephron's role is therefore not incidental but essential to one of the patriarchal narratives' clearest anticipations of settled inheritance. Taken together, the material presents Ephron as the seller whose transaction gives Abraham's family its first concrete stake in Canaan.1
Central Figure
Ephron
Meaning: dust
The son of Zohar a Hittite, the owner of the field and cave of Machpelah (q.v.), which Abraham bought for 400 shekels of silver (Gen.
The son of Zohar a Hittite, the owner of the field and cave of Machpelah (q.v.), which Abraham bought for 400 shekels of silver (Gen. 23:8-17; 25:9; 49:29, 30). 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person 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.