Bible Names

Hebron: meaning of the name

Hebron means “society; friendship.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Hebron in Hebrew and Greek

חֶבְרוֹן H2275

Chebrôwn (kheb-rone') — Chebron, a place in Palestine, also the name of two Israelites

from H2267 (חֶבֶר); seat of association;

People named Hebron in the Bible

Places named Hebron

Hebron in Scripture

“Hebron” appears in 68 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 13:18

    Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord.

  • Genesis 23:2

    And Sarah died in Kirjath–arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

  • Genesis 23:19

    And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

  • Genesis 35:27

    And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

  • Genesis 37:14

    And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

  • Exodus 6:18

    And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.

  • Numbers 3:19

    And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

  • Numbers 13:22

    And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)