Lexicon Makpelah: a place near Hebron Original Word: מַכְפֵּלָהPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Makpelah Phonetic Spelling: (mak-pay-law') Short Definition: Machpelah NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom kaphalDefinitiona place near Hebron NASB TranslationMachpelah (6).
Brown-Driver-Briggs מַכְמֵּלָה proper name, of a location near Hebron, where the patriarchs and their wives were buried, only in P, always with article; ׳שׂדה אשׁר בַּמּ Genesis 23:17, ׳מְעָדַת הַמּ the cave of Machpelah Genesis 23:9, Genesis 25:9, מְעָרַת׳שְׂדֵה הַמּ Genesis 23:19; Genesis 50:13, ׳מְעָרָה אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׂדֵה הַמּ Genesis 49:30. — compare Buhl Geogr. 160, 161. — (Evidently originally appellative, but meaning dubious; ᵐ5 τό διπλοῦν; according to Thes = part, lot, portion, as Ethiopic  ). Strong's Machpelah From kaphal; a fold; Makpelah, a place in Palestine -- Machpelah. see HEBREW kaphal |
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