Hepher

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

1. Son of Gilead, and ancestor of Zelophehad

• Numbers 26:32–33 the Shemidaite clan from Shemida, and the Hepherite clan from Hepher. Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons but only daughters. The names of his daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
• Numbers 27:1 Now the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. They approached
• Joshua 17:2–3 So this allotment was for the rest of the descendants of Manasseh — the clans of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These are the other male descendants of the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. But Zelophehad son of Hepher (the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh…

2. Son of Naarah

• 1 Chronicles 4:6 Naarah bore to him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the descendants of Naarah.

3. One of David's heroes

• 1 Chronicles 11:36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,

4. A city west of the Jordan River

• Joshua 12:17 the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
• 1 Kings 4:10 Ben-hesed in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);