Ophni

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Ophni: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

a town in Benjamin 5 km NW of Bethel (OS)

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wearisomeness; folding together

Google Maps: Ophni (31° 57´, 35° 12´)

Hebrew

Strongs #06078: ynpe `Ophniy

Ophni = "mouldy"

1) a town of Benjamin located 2.5 (4.5 km) miles northwest of Bethel;
modern 'Jifna'

6078 `Ophniy of-nee'

from an unused noun (denoting a place in Palestine; from an
unused root of uncertain meaning); an Ophnite (collectively)
or inhabitants of Ophen:-Ophni.

Ophni [EBD]

mouldy, a city of Benjamin (Josh. 18:24).

Ophni [NAVE]

OPHNI, a town of the Benjamites, Josh. 18:24.

OPHNI [SMITH]

(mouldy), a town of Benjamin, mentioned in (Joshua 18:24) the same as the Gophna of Josephus a place which at the time of Vespasian?s invasion was apparently so important as to be second only to Jerusalem. It still survives in the modern Jifna or Jufna , 23 miles northwest of Bethel.

OPHNI [ISBE]

OPHNI - of'-ni (ha-`ophni; Aphne): A place in the territory of Benjamin (Josh 18:24). The modern Jifneh, in a fine vale West of the road to Nablus and 2 1/2 miles Northwest of Bethel, might suit as to position; but the change in the initial letter from `ain to jim is not easy. This is the Gophna of the rabbis (compare Josephus, Jewish Wars, III, iii, 5).