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Strong H44712 sensesמַמְרֵא

Mamre

Transliteration
mamrê'
Pronunciation
mam-ray'

Meaning of the name

Mamre = "strength" or "fatness"

The 2 senses of Strong H4471

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H4471 appears in 10 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. A place near Hebron; associated with AbrahamH4471G9 verses · Genesis
  2. Amorite, ally of Abraham.H4471H1 verse · Genesis

General definition

From H4754 (in the sense of vigor);
lusty;
{Mamre} an Amorite: - Mamre.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • mamre10

First verses

  1. Genesis 13:18
    Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord.
  2. Genesis 14:13
    And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.
  3. Genesis 14:24
    Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.
  4. Genesis 18:1
    And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
  5. Genesis 23:17
    And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure
  6. Genesis 23:19
    And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
  7. Genesis 25:9
    And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;
  8. Genesis 35:27
    And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
  9. Genesis 49:30
    In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
  10. Genesis 50:13
    For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.