{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H211",
  "lemma": "אוֹפִיר",
  "transliteration": "ʼÔwphîyr",
  "definition": "Ophir, the name of a son of Joktan, and of a gold region in the East",
  "kjv": "Ophir.",
  "occurrences": 13,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "אוֹפִיר n.pr. Ophir",
    "1. n.pr.m. 11th son of Joktan",
    "2. n.pr.loc. (land or city S. or SE. fr. Palestine) place whither Sol.’s ships went fr. Ezion Geber, bringing thence gold",
    "3. characteristic of fine gold (poet. & late)",
    "4. hence for fine gold itself"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 10:29",
      "text": "Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/10?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 9:28",
      "text": "They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to King Solomon.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/9?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 10:11",
      "text": "The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir also brought in from Ophir great quantities of almug trees and precious…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/10?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 22:49",
      "text": "Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go, for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/22?v=49"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 13:12",
      "text": "I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/13?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 45:10",
      "text": "Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/45?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Job 22:24",
      "text": "Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/22?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Job 28:16",
      "text": "It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/28?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Chronicles 1:23",
      "text": "Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/1?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Chronicles 29:4",
      "text": "even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/29?v=4"
    }
  ],
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