Machpelah
mak-pe'-la (ha-makhpelah, "the Machpelah"; to diploun, "the
double"): The name of a piece of ground and of a cave
purchased by Abraham as a place of sepulcher. The word is
supposed to mean "double" and refers to the condition of the
cave. It is translated "double cave" (to diploun spelaion)
in the Septuagint in Gen 23:17. The name is applied t...
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The burying place of Sarah, Abraham, Isaac, Rebekah, Leah, and
Jacob
Ge 23:9,17-20; 25:9; 49:30,31; 50:13; Ac 7:16...
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(double, or a portion). [HEBRON]...
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portion; double cave, the cave which Abraham bought,
together
with the field in which it stood, from Ephron the
Hittite, for a
family burying-place (Gen. 23). It is one of those
Bible
localities about the identification of which there
can be no
doubt. It was on the slope of a hill on the east of
Hebron,
"before Mamre." Here were laid the ...
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The tract containing the field and cave in the end of Ephron's
field, which Abraham bought as his burying ground from Ephron
and the sons of Heth (Genesis 23:9); his only possession in
the land of promise. All ancient versions translated Machpelah
"the double cave," from kaphal, "to divide or double". Either
there were two entrances or two rec...
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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...
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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....
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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....
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That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath,
which [is] in the end of his field; for as much money as it is
worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace
amongst you....
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