Ephron

Family: Hittite · Role: seller · First appears: Genesis 23

Ephron, a Hittite seller, is identified in Genesis 23 as the son of Zohar, and Abraham pays him four hundred shekels for the field and cave at Machpelah as a burial possession: “And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver.”

By Genesis 25, the burial field is called the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, and Genesis 49 recalls it as the field Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a buryingplace.

Relationship record

Life events

• Abraham pays Ephron four hundred shekels for the field and cave as a burial possession.(Genesis 23 · 📍 Machpelah)
  • With: Abraham
  • “And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.”

Genesis 23

• parent: Zohar “and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,”
• with Abraham (Ephron sold the field and cave to Abraham for silver.) “And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.”

Genesis 25

• child: Zohar “in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite,”
• with Zohar (The text states Ephron is Zohar's son; the direction is represented as the parent relation in the next edge.) “in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;”

Genesis 49

• with Abraham (Abraham bought the field from Ephron.) “which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.”

⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🗂 Character index → · 🕰 Chronicle → · 📍 Places →

Extracted from the original text of The Five Books of Moses. Made with Rho MD.