Hepher
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Hepher in the Bible Dictionary
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1. Son of Gilead, and ancestor of Zelophehad
Num 26:32, 33; 27:1; Josh 17:2, 3
32 And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
Numbers 26:3233 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Numbers 26:331 Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
Numbers 27:12 There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.
Joshua 17:23 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Joshua 17:3 -
2. Son of Naarah
1 Chr 4:6
6 And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
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3. One of David’s heroes
1 Chr 11:36
36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
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4. A city west of the Jordan River
Josh 12:17; 1 Kgs 4:10
17 The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
Joshua 12:1710 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:
1 Kings 4:10
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
