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Ephron b. Zohar the Hittite

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The person who sold to Abraham what became the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

Names

  • Arabic: عفرون بن صوحار الحيثي = ʿAfrūn b. Ṣūḥār al-Ḥīthī 1

Attributes

  • Male

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 387 [Arabic].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Ephron b. Zohar the Hittite” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/7166.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān
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