Bible Names

Ophrah: meaning of the name

Ophrah means “dust; lead; a fawn.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Ophrah in Hebrew and Greek

עׇפְרָה H6084

ʻOphrâh (of-raw') — Ophrah, the name of an Israelite and of two places in Palestine

feminine of H6082 (עֹפֶר); female fawn;

Who named Ophrah in the Bible

Places named Ophrah

Ophrah in Scripture

“Ophrah” appears in 8 verses of the King James Version.

  • Joshua 18:23

    And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,

  • Judges 6:11

    And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.

  • Judges 6:24

    Then Gideon built an altar there unto the Lord, and called it Jehovah–shalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi–ezrites.

  • Judges 8:27

    And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.

  • Judges 8:32

    And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi–ezrites.

  • Judges 9:5

    And he went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

  • 1 Samuel 13:17

    And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:

  • 1 Chronicles 4:14

    And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen.