# H2660 חֵפֶר

חֵפֶר (Chêpher), Strong’s H2660: Chepher, a place in Palestine; also the name of three Israelites KJV: Hepher.. Occurs 9 times.

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*Chêpher* — Chepher, a place in Palestine; also the name of three Israelites

KJV: Hepher.

Built from [חָפַר châphar](https://besorah.bible/word/H2658) (to pry into) + [חָפֵר châphêr](https://besorah.bible/word/H2659) (to blush) — means “a pit of shame”

Occurs 9 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חֵ֫פֶר n.pr.m.
- 1 a Manassite
- 2 a man of Judah
- 3 one of David's heroes
- חֵ֫פֶר n.pr.loc
- חֵ֫פֶר n.pr.loc.
- 1 Canaanitish town, with a king, named just before Aphek
- 2 in Judah

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 26:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/26?v=32) — and Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
- [Numbers 26:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/26?v=33) — Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah…
- [Numbers 27:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/27?v=1) — Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the…
- [Joshua 12:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/12?v=17) — the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
- [Joshua 17:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/17?v=2) — So this was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, for the…
- [Joshua 17:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/17?v=3) — But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but…
- [1 Kings 4:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/4?v=10) — Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);
- [1 Chronicles 4:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/4?v=6) — Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
- [1 Chronicles 11:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/11?v=36) — Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,