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    2 others in the registry answer to the name Ephron. Every Ephron in the Bible

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    Ephron

    עֶפְרוֹן

    Ephron the Hittite sold the cave of Machpelah to Abraham as a burial site for Sarah.

    verses
    10
    first named
    Genesis 23:8
    last named
    Genesis 50:13
    period
    the Patriarchs
    role
    Man

    Description

    Who was Ephron?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Ephron was a Hittite man who lived in the city of Hebron during the time of Abraham. He owned a field containing the cave of Machpelah, which Abraham sought to purchase as a burial place for his wife Sarah (Gen.23).

    When Sarah died, Abraham approached the Hittites and requested to buy a burial site. Ephron was present at the meeting and offered to give the field and the cave to Abraham as a gift (Gen.23.8-11). However, Abraham insisted on paying the full price, and Ephron named a price of 400 shekels of silver (Gen.23.14-15).

    Abraham agreed to the price and paid Ephron in the presence of witnesses, securing the field and the cave as a permanent possession for burial (Gen.23.16-20). The cave of Machpelah later became the burial place for Abraham himself, as well as Isaac, Rebekah, Israel (or 'Jacob'), and Leah (Gen.25.9; 49.29,30; 50.13).

    Ephron's interaction with Abraham demonstrates the legal and social customs of property transactions in the ancient Near East. It also highlights Abraham's desire to establish a permanent burial place for his family in the land of Canaan, foreshadowing the future possession of the land by his descendants.

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    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Ephron10 of 12 entities the graph connects to Ephron, in 2 groups: company 5, events 5. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.HethAssociated with · 4 events · 58 versesSelling MachpelahTook part in · 4 versesAbraham’s paymentTook part in · 2 versesAbraham’s purchase of Ephron Field and Jacob CaveTook part in · 2 versesEphron’s answeringTook part in · 2 versesCompanyAbraham9 events · 275 versesSale1 event · 35 versesEphrons Field3 events · 7 versesMachpelah2 events · 6 versesJacob Cave1 event · 4 versesEventsEphron

    The 10 best-attested of 12 are drawn. All 12 are listed below.

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    A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.

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    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 10, across 1 book. The name is written 12 times in them.

    1. Genesis10 verses

      23:823:1023:1323:1423:1623:1725:949:2949:3050:13

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    via Abraham’s purchase of Ephron Field and Jacob Cave and Abraham’s payment, and 2 moreAbrahamPatriarch, chosen by God to father His peoplevia Abraham’s payment and Heth and Ephron’s giving, and 1 moreEphrons FieldEphrons Field is a place attested across 7 verses, connecting 2 pageable entities.via Heth and Ephron’s giving and Selling MachpelahMachpelahA cave near Hebron; burial place of patriarchsvia Ephron’s answeringAnsweringAnswering is a concept gathering 28 labelled instances in the text.via Abraham’s paymentPaymentPayment is a concept gathering 24 labelled instances in the text.via Abraham’s purchase of Ephron Field and Jacob CaveJacob CaveJacob Cave is a place attested across 4 verses, connecting 2 pageable entities.via Abraham’s purchase of Ephron Field and Jacob CavePurchasePurchase is a concept gathering 29 labelled instances in the text.via Heth and Ephron’s givingGivingGiving is a concept gathering 561 labelled instances in the text.via Selling MachpelahSaleSale is a concept gathering 35 labelled instances in the text.

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