Strong H4471H4471Gמַמְרֵא
Mamre
One of the 2 senses of Strong H4471
- Transliteration
- mamrê'
- Pronunciation
- mam-ray'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
Mamre, a place near Hebron where Abraham lived and built an altar to the Lord (Genesis 13:18; 18:1).
Meaning of the name
Mamre = "strength" or "fatness"
General definition
In the biblical story
Mamre
A place near Hebron; associated with Abraham
Mamre, a place near Hebron where Abraham lived and built an altar to the Lord (Genesis 13:18; 18:1).
In the Bible
Strong H4471G appears in 9 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- mamre9
First verses
- Genesis 13:18Then 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.
- Genesis 14:24Save 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.
- Genesis 18:1And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
- Genesis 23:17And 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
- Genesis 23:19And 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.
- Genesis 25:9And 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;
- Genesis 35:27And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
- Genesis 49:30In 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.
- Genesis 50:13For 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.