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CALEB-EPHRATHAH

(Heb. kālēḇ ʾeprāṯâ)

The place where Hezron, the father of Caleb, died (1 Chr. 2:24). The location of the place is unknown. If the Hebrew text is correct, Caleb-ephrathah should be located in the land of Goshen, since Hezron entered Egypt with his father Perez and his grandfather Judah (Gen. 46:8-12). If the location of Caleb-ephrathah is to be found in Canaan, then it would be near Hebron, where Caleb settled after he came from Egypt. The LXX reading of 1 Chr. 2:24, “Caleb came to Ephrathah,” is preferable because Caleb-ephrathah appears nowhere else in the OT as the name of a city (cf. RSV “went in to Ephrathah,” i.e., a wife of Hezron).

Claude F. Mariottini






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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