King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3716
Transliteration: Kphiyrah
Phonetic Spelling: (kef-ee-raw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: a city in Benjamin
Meaning: a city in Benjamin
Word Summary
Kphiyrah: a city in Benjamin
Original Word: כְּפִירָהTransliteration: Kphiyrah
Phonetic Spelling: (kef-ee-raw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: a city in Benjamin
Meaning: a city in Benjamin
Strong's Concordance
Chephirah Feminine of kphiyr; the village (always with the art.); Kephirah, a place in Palestine -- Chephirah.
see HEBREW kphiyr
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H3716. Kphiyrah
כְּפִירָה proper name, of a location city of the Hivites subsequently assigned to Benjamin., Joshua 9:17; 18:26; Ezra 2:25 = Nehemiah 7:29; ᵐ5 Κεφειρα, etc.; = modern Kefireh RobBR iii, 146 GuérinJud. i. 283 ff. Memiii. 36 BuhlG. § 94, p.169.
כְּפִירִים Nehemiah 6:2, probably = foregoing (ᵐ5 and others appellative noun = villages).
IV. כפר (√ of following, = dig ? compare Sabean כפר, verb dig, noun cave, DHMAnzeiger d. Wiener Akkadian, phil.-hist. Cl., Dec. 17, 1884, quoted by EutNab 27; Nöib. compare also Ethiopic basket, measure; Nabataean כפר cave, sepulcher, synonym of קברא Nö in EutNab ib.)