Ephron
Ephron the Hittite is the landowner from whom Abraham buys Machpelah; in Genesis 50 Jacob is buried in that cave and field.
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- Occupation
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- First mention
- Genesis 23:8
Family
Parents
Scripture references
- Genesis 23:8
intercede for me with Ephron son of Zohar,
- Genesis 23:10
Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham...
- Genesis 23:15
a plot of land for four hundred shekels of silver...
- Genesis 23:17
Thus Ephron's field at Machpelah ... passed into Abraham's possession.
- Genesis 25:9
buried him in the cave of Machpelah ... in the field of Ephron the Hittite son of Zohar.
- Genesis 49:29
Then he gave them these instructions, 'I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors, in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
- Genesis 49:30
in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, in Canaan, which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.
- Genesis 50:13
His sons carried him to Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.