Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H1662: גַּת־הַחֵפֶר

Gath-ha-Chêpher · pronounced gath-hah-khay'-fer · “Gath-hepher”

Definition

Gath-Chepher, a place in Palestine

KJV translates it as: Gath-kephr, Gittah-kephr.

Word origin: or (abridged) גִּתָּה־חֵפֶר; from H1660 (גַּת) and H2658 (חָפַר) with the article inserted; wine-press of (the) well;

Extended definition

§ Gath-hepher or Gittah-hepher = "the winepress of digging"
home town of Jonah on the border of Zebulun

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H1662 is translated

  • hepher ×2
  • towards ×1
  • gath ×1

Bible verses with H1662 (Gath-ha-Chêpher)

Gath-ha-chêpher appears in 2 verses.

  • Joshua 19:13

    And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittah–hepher, to Ittah–kazin, and goeth out to Remmon–methoar to Neah;

  • 2 Kings 14:25

    He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath–hepher.