Ophrah
Ophrah
1.
A city of Benjamin, written Ἐφραθὰ by the LXX. (Joshua, 18.23) and Γοφερὰ (1 Sam. 13.17). It is placed by Eusebius and S. Jerome v. M.P. east of Bethel. (Onomast. s. v. Aphra.) Dr. Robinson says that this accords well with the position of Et-Taiyibeh, a village of Greek Christians, on a conical hill on a high ridge of land, which would probably not have been left unoccupied in ancient times. (Bib. Res. vol. ii. pp. 123--125.)
2.
Ophrah of the Abiezrites (Ἐφραθὰ πατσὸς τοῦ Ἐσδαί, LXX.; Judges, 6.11, 24, 8.27; in ver. 32. Ἀβὶ Ἐσδρί), a town in the half-tribe of Manasseh, west of Jordan, the native place of Gideon, where also he was buried. [G.W]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.