Bible Names

Hepher: meaning of the name

Hepher means “a digger.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Hepher in Hebrew and Greek

חֵפֶר H2660

Chêpher (khay'-fer) — Chepher, a place in Palestine; also the name of three Israelites

from H2658 (חָפַר) or H2659 (חָפֵר); a pit of shame;

People named Hepher in the Bible

Places named Hepher

Hepher in Scripture

“Hepher” appears in 9 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Numbers 26:32

    And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

  • Numbers 26:33

    And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

  • Numbers 27:1

    Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

  • Joshua 12:17

    The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

  • Joshua 17:2

    There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.

  • Joshua 17:3

    But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

  • 1 Kings 4:10

    The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:

  • 1 Chronicles 4:6

    And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.